Top 27 Military Presence Quotes
#1. We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#2. For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.
Mark Boal
#3. The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#4. We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.
John R. Allen
#5. Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.
Rudy Giuliani
#6. Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.
John McCain
#7. Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors.
John F. Kerry
#8. Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.
John Eisenhower
#9. Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany's military objectives in Europe. That year Germany grew into a singularly dangerous continental presence: besieged, paranoid and armed to the teeth.
Paul Ham
#10. My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
Santosh Kalwar
#11. The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
Geraldo Rivera
#12. I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.
Jay Roach
#13. ARE YOU ASKING ME WHAT THOUGHTS YOU SHOULD THINK?? What kind of Orwellian police state do you think I'm running here? Think whatever thoughts come into your thinking device, sir. (response to a reader asking what to keep in mind while reading Warm Bodies)
Isaac Marion
#14. A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
John Steinbeck
#15. Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
China Mieville
#16. There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
Peter James
#17. There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#18. Cleaning only moves the dust somewhere else.
Marty Rubin
#20. Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#21. Barringtons aren't local by origin. They're carpetbaggers from Philadelphia - an offshoot of a House that had grown too big to govern. Or more to the point, it'd grown too big for everyone to successfully get along without a whole lot of murdering going on.
Cherie Priest
#22. We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.
Carl Levin
#23. For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?
Theresa Brown
#24. Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.
Carly Fiorina
#25. Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.
Eric Alterman
#26. In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
Bob Woodward
#27. I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow.
Dane Cook
