Troops Quotes - Page 7

• When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grateful, Home, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

  Hillary Clinton

  Zero, Mean, School

  Source: time.com

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• George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Agreement, Made

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton talks about taking them [ISIS] out. She's been doing it a long time. She's been trying to take them out for a long time. But they wouldn't have even been formed if they left some troops behind, like 10,000 or maybe something more than that. And then you wouldn't have had them.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Long, Trying

  Source: time.com

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• The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Agreement, Iraq, Government

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

  Tim Kaine

  World, Way, Dangerous

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

  Mike Pence

  Military, War, Numbers

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Teacher, Support

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Absolutely without firing a shot and instead of 175,000 American troops deployed overseas we now have 15,000.

  Tim Kaine

  Shots, American Troops, Firing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement...And so we removed, we removed all of our troops from Iraq and ISIS was able to be conjured up in that vacuum and over run vast areas of Iraq.

  Mike Pence

  Running, Isis, Agreement

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Military, War, Gun

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• I would not use American ground forces in Syria. I think that would be a very serious mistake. I don't think American troops should be holding territory, which is what they would have to do as an occupying force. I don't think that is a smart strategy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, Smart, Thinking

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I would not have had our troops in Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Iraq, Troops In Iraq, Our Troops

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• American troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. And so she [Hillary Clinton] is saying we're not going to go back down that road, which is what the American people want. They don't want us putting more troops.

  Eric Bolling

  Iraq, People, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The nationalists' coup in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in February 2014 has hugely scared 2.5 million Russian people living on Crimea. So what did we do? We have not gone to war, we have not fired, not a single person was killed. Our soldiers have merely prevented the Ukrainian troops on Crimea from impeding the freedom of expression of the people.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Expression, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.

  Brad Williams

  People, Giving, Chinese

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, War

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• I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have it. You could do it. I think weather is a factor. The most important factor though is credibility and legitimacy. What I wanted earlier to say is what I think Senator [John] Kerry is pointing to, which is important, is the strategic review on whether to send more troops is only one piece of the puzzle, important piece.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Weather, People

  "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

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• There has to be a reform within the government that is tangible, that we can actually measure and that we have confidence is going to provide some of the differences that I think are essential to our troops to be able to carry out their mission and to the longer- term interests of our country.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.

  Rahm Emanuel

  World, Ability, Absolutes

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Successful, Want, Lasts

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans themselves are going to define what happens here. And we have to convince ourselves that we have a strategy in place that empowers them to do that and that is realistic in what our expectations are from them and on what schedule.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Military, Numbers, Expectations

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The Islamists had control over territory that was about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, we have been putting the lives of our troops on the line, we have taken huge losses and the Europeans cut the budget? If money is more important than the lives of our children, what else is this than the usual arrogance and superficiality? And where is all this terror coming from? It is a result of mistakes the West committed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1980s, when they armed the Islamic rebels against the Soviet troops.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Children, Mistake, Taken

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The greatest disaster of all was after all the difficulties and loss of life and expenditures, President [Barak] Obama walked away, in 2011, and it is a disaster. And now we've got half of Iraq under the ISIS control and terrorists, and Iran has moved in because we weren't there, and they've taken more influence. Just a few thousand troops, in my opinion, would have avoided that.

  Jeff Sessions

  Taken, Loss, Isis

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

  Dalai Lama

  Unions, Accepting, Form

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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