Troops Quotes - Page 3

• I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Errors, Views

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.

  Kofi Annan

  Expectations, Would Be, Analyzing

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense.

  Ron Paul

  Needs, Defense, Helping

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• Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

  Sun Tzu

  Design, Tasks

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

  Rand Paul

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Sleep, Political

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Hate, Gay

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• The American people overwhelmingly want our troops out of Iraq. They want the federal government to take real and immediate action to combat global warming and to significantly expand support for stem cell research. Democrats almost unanimously support the people's wishes onthese crucial issues. Republicans don't.

  Al Gore

  Real, Government, Cells

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• I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.'

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Rights, Cities

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• The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Church, Encounters

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.349

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• When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Volunteer

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• I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

  Stephen Lang

  War, Believe, Supportive

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, People, Imagine

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

  Imran Khan

  Cancer, Heart, Mind

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• The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Iraq, Doe

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• President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Peace, Military

  "Putin's 'little green men' aiding Ukrainian separatists, says Biden", www.foxnews.com. February 06, 2015.

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• Our approach is very simple we have nothing to negotiate ... We have the Minsk format and we need immediately just a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy artillery and weapons and tanks from the touchline, the solution is very simple - stop supplying weapons ... withdraw the troops and close the border. Very simple peace plan. If you want to discuss something different, it means you are not for peace, you are for war.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home.

  Mike Rogers

  Home, Appreciate, Alabama

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• We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Country, Peace, Fire

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• I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.

  Colin Powell

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Government, Organization, Kind

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• I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated and motivated and committed and active forever. There are pulses where they switch on to a particular issue, and just inevitably they switch off.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Mistake, Defense

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

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• I am against the war, but I do support our white troops. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not a Republican. I'm not a member of the party of inclusion. Wonderful, tolerant, rational human beings they are.

  David Cross

  Funny, War, Party

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• I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, America

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