2,366 Quotes About Military

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.

To have more, you must first be more.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.