Troops Quotes - Page 20

• The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

  George Saunders

  Data, Doe, Broads

  "Just who is this Magna Carta fellow?" by George Saunders, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

  Peter DeFazio

  Country, Home, Commitment

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• I believe that the president's (Bush) leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Taken, Believe, Iraq

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• Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nations vital domestic needs.

  Raul Grijalva

  Home, Iraq, People

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• The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

  Erwin Rommel

  Training, Firsts, Welfare

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• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  Zell Miller

  Marine, America, Leader

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Know How, Knows

  "New Orleans rocked by huge blasts". news.bbc.co.uk. September 2, 2005.

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• As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

  Jim Ryun

  Country, Past, Years

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• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  General Butt Naked

  Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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• I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

  Roger Stone

  War, Believe, Islamic

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• However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Perfection, Tanks, Facts

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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• Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Iraq, Withdrawal, Administration

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• Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Russia, Rights

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• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Kings, Real

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• Feed the troops on victory.

  John Monash

  Victory

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• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Suicide, Block, War

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• Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Government, Law, Political

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• We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.

  Jill Stein

  War, Home, Vietnam

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

  George W. Bush

  Decision, Veteran, Made

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

  Martha Raddatz

  Mean, Doe, Way

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Nsa, Data

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• In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

  Alexander Haig

  Commitment, Storm, Desert

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• I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, People, Support

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. March 6, 2006.

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• I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Mother, Running, Father

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• I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.

  Larry Hagman

  Air, Years, Special

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