Top 35 Bacevich Andrew Quotes
#2. As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist - particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic - were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#3. The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
Andrew Bacevich
#4. He's the boy who stopped and I'm the girl he stopped for and what happens to her, if he goes away?
Courtney Summers
#5. I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.
Andrew Bacevich
#6. As the writings of Walton and others suggest, many evangelicals view the requirements of U.S. national security in the here-and-now and the final accomplishment of Christ's saving mission at the end of time as closely related if not indistinguishable.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#7. You'll abandon me?
Who will
then see
the attire of my nakedness
in which I appear
truly
beautiful?
Maram Al-Masri
#8. It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.
Ray Nitschke
#9. The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
Anthony Kennedy
#10. It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
Andrew Bacevich
#11. For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.
Andrew Bacevich
#13. Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
Andrew Bacevich
#14. If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.
Andrew Bacevich
#15. We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.
Andrew Bacevich
#16. To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
Andrew Bacevich
#17. Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.
Andrew Bacevich
#18. as the Age of Bush gave way to the Era of Obama, little of substance changed. That was the greatest irony of all.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#19. In an era that exalts individual autonomy above all other values, the state as a practical matter has long since forfeited its authority to command citizens to defend the nation.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#20. Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
Andrew Bacevich
#21. It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
Ricky Gervais
#22. True love is limitless, patience and forgiveness are not ...
Jarius Raphel
#23. It's impossible," he snapped.
"Why?"
"Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.
Lisa Kleypas
#24. Even as U.S. policy in recent decades has become progressively militarized, so too has the Vietnam-induced gap separating the U.S. military from American society persisted and perhaps even widened.47
Andrew J. Bacevich
#25. History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#26. Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
Dagobert D. Runes
#27. The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.
Tom Platz
#28. The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.
Paul Ince
#29. Americans entrust their security to a class of military professionals who see themselves in many respects as culturally and politically set apart from the rest of society.53
Andrew J. Bacevich
#30. As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
Andrew Bacevich
#31. As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
Azzedine Alaia
#32. The war that the officer corps prepared itself to fight was the war in which the prospects of actually having to fight were most remote. This made perfect sense.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#33. It is tempting to think of your husband-to-be as just another bridal accessory. It may be easier for him to play along with this too. After all, you don't expect your shoes or your beaded bag to help you make decisions.
Mimi Pond
#34. Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
John Dryden
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