Troops Quotes - Page 10

• Americans will gladly support their president when he attacks nations that sponsor or harbor terrorists. We will even back him in a preemptive war against a country that might attack us. But when we start sending troops around the world to stabilize nations that, if left to disintegrate, might become breeding grounds for terror, it's a step too far for most Americans.

  Dick Morris

  Country, War, Support

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• So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans.

  Don Kardong

  Cities, Advice, Pathways

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• We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lakes, Law, Cities

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• I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

  John McCain

  Strong, Commitment, Thinking

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• Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.

  John McCain

  Pain, War, Ideas

  "Fog Facts #2" by Larry Beinhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2005.

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• Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

  Christopher Titus

  Jobs, Home, Calling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, and drive to war.

  Daniel Tosh

  Morning, War, Sleep

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• I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

  Amanda Schull

  Character, Home, Army

  Source: collider.com

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• I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Fighting, Vietnam

  "Opinion A new Republican archetype" by Charles Pierce, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

  Strom Thurmond

  Home, Army, Swimming

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• Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not just a troop cap, but a phased redeployment that will start bringing our troops home.

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Home

  "Flat State of the Union Address Still Earns Requisite Applause", www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2007.

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• The president has outlined a new strategy for success in Iraq, but in order for this effort to be successful the Iraqi government must be held accountable. ... If we fail in Iraq, or withdraw our troops prematurely, the terrorists will follow us home. Success is our only option.

  John Boehner

  Home, Successful, Government

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• U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

  Zig Ziglar

  War, Party, Men

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• I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off "The Hurt Locker" (2008) and I'm thinking of the war and I think it's a deplorable situation. It's a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Hurt, War, Opportunity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Missing, Democracy

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• Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Views, Libertarian

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Be tough, hold a tough line, but don`t be running off into another war, especially since even if you support our troops and you want to have a robust foreign policy, you recognize that we have - we have been overdeploying our men and women, and we have been spilling our blood and treasure, and we need to be more careful.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, War, Men

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.

  Howard Fineman

  Chance, Argument, Ifs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

  David Letterman

  Names, Yesterday, Decision

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• The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Home, Iraq, Community

  Official press release, Washington, D.C., December 14, 2003.

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• I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.

  Mort Sahl

  War, Pbs, Bob

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2011

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• I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

  John F. Kerry

  World, United Nations, United

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• If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

  Lindsey Graham

  Winning, Iraq, Appreciate

  "Special Coverage for the RNC". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. September 4, 2008.

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• If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

  Ron Paul

  Country, School, Gun

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• In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential programs have been cut - to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families.

  Robert Hormats

  Military, War, Sacrifice

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