Quotes About Military Commanders

#1. If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down.

Gordon Brown

#2. As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.

Howard Coble

#3. Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

Bill Shuster

#4. I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

Lindsey Graham

#5. Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

William R. Polk

#6. A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

Ron Fournier

#7. Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

Evgeny Morozov

#8. Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds

Genghis Khan

#9. I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.

John McCain

#10. Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.

George W. Bush

#11. The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

Pete Souza

#12. When I talk with women who have had wonderful experiences in the military it's because their commanders treated them with respect and dignity and gave them equality with their peers that was unparalleled in their lives.

Amy Ziering

#13. With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#14. After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.

Charles Duhigg

#15. I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

Ryan McGinley

#16. In the West today public places are no longer named after military victories. Our war memorials depict not proud commanders on horseback but weeping mothers, weary soldiers, or exhaustive lists of names of the dead.

Steven Pinker

#17. We ... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Charley Reese

#18. If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

Harlan Coben

#19. Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action.

Tameichi Hara

#20. We can easily get our lives out of balance.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#21. Is it a greater tragedy to achieve all one's desires or to lose them all?

Mark T. Barnes

#22. The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us to the place of cleansing: the cross of Christ.

Billy Graham

#23. It was M-m-moe and Shorty," I said. "Damn, I can't stop
shaking."
"Adrenaline burn-off," Ranger said. "It's normal."
"Why aren't you sh-sh-shaking?"
"I'm not normal.

Janet Evanovich

#24. Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people.

Michael Burgess

#25. We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.

Amy Ziering

#26. To say that a social order is maintained by military force immediately raises the question: what maintains the military order? It is impossible to organise an army solely by coercion. At least some of the commanders and soldiers must truly believe in something, be

Yuval Noah Harari

#27. The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

Georgy Zhukov

#28. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!

Tammy Duckworth