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“I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.”

Ifs Knows Believe Action Fighting I Believe Sitting Ass Command Commanders

Author:Christopher Vokes

“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.”

Thinking World War Worst Military Court Terrorism Target Worst Things Commanders War On Terror War On Terrorism

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.”

Firsts War Feelings Winning Return Paper Thirds Commanders Signatures Misgivings

Author:Bill Vaughan

“What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.”

World Needs Persons Effort Masters Responsible Disaster Around The World Relief Boss Anticipation Execution Rescue Emergencies Urgent Commanders Czars

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of al Qaeda... All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way - they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.”

Way Has Beens Different Country States Problem Humor Political United United States Fate Keys Mets Terrorist Als Allies Commanders Arrested Al Qaeda Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.”

Knows Should Wells Has Beens Said Two Government Know How Virtue Ought Citizens Capable Commanders Good Citizen Freeman Well Said

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander of NATO, saw combat in Vietnam, won the bronze star, silver star, the purple heart for being wounded in battle. See, I'm no political expert, but that sounds pretty good next to choking on a pretzel, falling off a scooter and dropping the dog.”

“As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.”

Giving Jobs President Decision Advice Needed Tools Lays Objectives Chiefs Experts Rely Combat Day To Day Commanders Commander In Chief Rely Upon Admiral

Author:Ted Cruz

“A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.”

Needs Two Fighting Winning Enemy Chiefs Two Things Commanders Commander In Chief Fighting To Win

Author:Oliver North

“The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.”

Looks Made Funny Expression Ten Humorous Distance Miles Commanders

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.”

Order Issues Kings Constitution Obedience Ministers Troops Ministry Commanders Fidelity Fortresses Hungary Hungarians

Book:Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.”

“But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.”

“You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.”

Men Want States United United States He Man Men And Women Standing Chiefs Uniforms Commanders Convenient Commander In Chief Us Army Military Leadership

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]”

Men Meetings Commanders Sean

Author:Ian Fleming

“I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.”

Believe Individual I Believe Fame Welcome Commanders Arrivals

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.”

“Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.”

Should Dies Army British Empires Honour Officers Stakes Troops Senior Commanders British Empire British Army

Author:Lord Randolph Churchill

“When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.”

Giving Order Prayer Duty Chiefs Reports Commanders Commander In Chief

Author:Michael Catt

“There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.”

Wells Imagination Common Enemy Elements Originals Common Sense Reasoning Massive Composition Beaten Commanders Sinister Puzzled

Book:The World Crisis, 1911-1918

Source: The World Crisis, 1911-1918

“Why do soldiers fight? They join because they believe in a higher cause -- protecting religion, their nation, defending against a foreign nation. But why do soldier stay and fight? Soldiers aren't individuals. They are part of a unit. And that unit is led by a commander. If they don't trust their commander ... if there is no leadership, there is nothing.”

Ifs Believe Fighting Individual Nations Causes Leadership Higher Soldier Units Commanders Don't Trust

Author:Peter R. Mansoor

“If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.”

Ifs Home Order Asks Conscience Let Me Jew Refuse Excuse Commanders Excuse Me

Author:Naftali Bennett

“Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.”

Men Looks Self Care Winning Water Hell He Man Discipline Exercise Hardship Self Discipline Caution Commanders

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.”

I Can Suffering Watches Cases Masters Sickness Commanders Pianist Ivory

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.”

Should War Body Order Nations Cutting Protect Disease Chiefs Limbs Commanders Surgeons Commander In Chief

Author:Michael Huffington

“The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.”

Needs Used Enemy Russia Chiefs Iran Warfare Joints Commanders Flew Moscow Cyber Commander In Chief Cyber Warfare

Author:Ted Cruz

“I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.”

Thinking Want Persons Jobs Culture Example Gender Commanders Best Person

Author:Tanya Biank

“If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.”

Ifs Looks Real Force Military India Chiefs Defence Commanders Commander In Chief

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.”

People Believe Persons Has Beens Together Jobs I Believe Leader Successful Could Have Been Juniors Commanders Nasa

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.”

Made War Easy Mistake Paid Defense Troops Commanders Casualties Blunders Nothing Is Easy

Book:Crusade in Europe

Source: Crusade in Europe

“National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state] face and what we have to do about it and if you can't articulate that as a candidate, you cannot be commander-in-chief.”

Ifs States Government Faces President Security Threat Chiefs Candidates National Security Commanders Commander In Chief

Author:Marco Rubio

“The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.”

Way Use Fighting Force Wish Effort Enemy Military Battle Vices Preparation Tunes Swings Commanders Vice Versa

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.”

Values Appreciate Commanders

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.”

May Important Ability Fate Depends Ought Equal Kingdoms Command Chiefs Stations Possessed Commanders Commander In Chief Admiral

Book:Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

Source: Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

“The decision to leave [Iraq] should be based solely on the judgment of the combatant commanders on the ground who say, "My Iraqi counterparts can now handle this particular area of the country on their own with minimum American support or with no American support." When they can do that, we should leave.”

Should Country Can Do Decision Support Particular Judgment Areas Iraq Handle Minimum Commanders Counterparts

Author:Duncan Hunter

“Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.”

Needs Trying Humans Sides Moral Enemy Virtue Study Human Nature Eternal Army Salvation Storm Defense Camps Commanders Theological Cardinals Fortresses Moral Virtues

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.”

Thinking Knows Want Mind Hard Sides Enemy Teacher Commanders Pupils Away From You Hard Things

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.”

Next Conflict Congress Chiefs Entering Commanders Cooperatives Commander In Chief

Author:Don Young

“My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.”

Ifs Knows Persons Stills Next Advice Military Bases Chiefs Experts Engaged Commanders Adviser Commander In Chief

Author:Ralph Abraham

“Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'”

Knows Needs Home Remember Strong President Support Security Military Fields Duty Needed Battle Defense National Security Commanders Insert National Defense

Author:Ryan Zinke

“I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.”

Knows Want Should Believe Use I Believe Powerful Military Percent Chiefs Most Powerful Commanders Commander In Chief

Author:Phil Roe

“We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more faith in military leadership who have all of the combat experience. It’s bad policy to try to micromanage too much operationally and tactically from a desk in the Oval Office.”

Needs Trying President Too Much Military Policy Office Stronger Chiefs Consistent Combat Foreign Policy Desks Commanders Commander In Chief Oval Military Leadership

Author:Lee Zeldin

“Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.”

War Willing Waste Dignity Caring Terrorism Terrorist Commanders War On Terror Not Caring War On Terrorism

Author:David Corn

“We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.”

Knows May Made Know How Ought Originals Obedience Falsehood Commanders Magistrates

Author:Algernon Sidney

“The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.”

Should Firsts Given Spring Army Green Soldier British Debate Ministers Prime Prime Minister Strategic Commanders Impassioned American Army

Author:Rick Atkinson

“As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on the commander's will alone. The ardor of his spirit must rekindle the flame of purpose in all others; his inward fire must revive their hope.”

Men Giving Whole Spirit Purpose Fire Flames Inward Commanders Inertia Revive Ardor

Book:On War

Source: On War

“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.”

Wonderful Military Dignity Treated Peers Commanders Wonderful Experience Dignity And Respect

Author:Amy Ziering

“Figure out the one solution - not three - that you want to see happen. There were quite a few things we could have gone after but we decided to focus on the commanders and that was a strategic decision because that, for us, would be the most vulnerable point and the most effective one that could immediately change.”

Want Happens Would Be Three Decision Gone Focus Figures Solutions Decided Vulnerable Strategic Commanders

Author:Amy Ziering

“Whenever I spoke with anybody who said they did not have a problem in the military it was because their commander treated them well. Every single time it was about the commander as to whether they had a good or bad experience.”

Wells Said Problem Military Treated Spokes Commanders Bad Experiences

Author:Amy Ziering

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