Quotes About Special Operations

#1. Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Richard Engel

#2. The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Hugh Shelton

#3. If you think of a special operations team - SEALs, Special Forces, Rangers, and the Air Force Pararescuemen and combat controllers - like a boat, everybody rows.

Mark Owen

#4. I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

Elizabeth Wein

#5. After 20 years in special operations trust me, I know my body.

Joe Teti

#6. All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.

Renee Montagne

#7. Race was an issue because in every assignment I have had in Special Operations, racism has been as much a part of the social bond as football and fast cars. I never cared for either of them either, but this was special.

Stan Goff

#8. As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.

Robin Hayes

#9. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

Brad Thor

#10. When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.

Leon Panetta

#11. I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#12. Amber wanted to see special operations open to women and she believed they all should have a shot at going to Ranger School but only if there were no shortcuts, no dumbing down of any of the requirements, the same standards for everyone. And everyone would have the chance to meet them. T

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#13. You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

Paulette Goddard

#14. If only I would have done this, I should have done this, I could have done this ... " He swore. "Life is full of those three.

Rachel Van Dyken

#15. We are losing the war on cancer because we are on an incessant search for the impossible-to-find cure, when in fact removing the causes is the only way to win.

Joel Fuhrman

#16. With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.

Zoe McLellan

#17. Operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing.

Jeremy Scahill

#18. The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

Tristen Gaspadarek

#19. The Interborough issues are an example of a rather special group of situations in which analysis may reach more definite conclusions respecting intrinsic value than in the ordinary case. These situations may involve a liquidation or give rise to technical operations known as "arbitrage" or "hedging.

Benjamin Graham

#20. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

Henry Ford

#21. The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

Arthur Capper

#22. It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

Rihanna

#23. I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Brene Brown