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“My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.”

“The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.”

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Author:Martin McGuinness

“What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.”

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Author:Peter MacKay

“If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.”

Ifs America Military Financial Burden British Massive Rejected Maintaining Militarism Colonists Financial Burden

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.”

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Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.”

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Author:Leo Ornstein

“Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.”

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Author:Kevin Powers

“2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.”

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Author:George Scratchley Brown

“I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.”

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Author:Barbara Lee

“Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.”

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Author:Barbara Lee

“I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.”

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Author:Donna Leon

“I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.”

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Author:Emeril Lagasse

“From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.”

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Author:Bev Perdue

“The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.”

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Author:David Petraeus

“I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.”

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Author:George Papandreou

“Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.”

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Author:Lee Pace

“I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.”

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Author:Ralph Peters

“My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.”

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Author:Cameron Russell

“The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.”

“It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.”

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Author:Scott Ritter

“Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.”

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Author:Jay London

“If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.”

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Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.”

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Author:Stuart Symington

“I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.”

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Author:Mark Udall

“It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.”

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Author:Eamon de Valera

“The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.”

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Author:Eamon de Valera

“Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I believe as well that - that American strength is - is essential economic strength, family and value strength, military strength is essential for our own good that these things not only help secure peace for other people but preserve peace for us and - and promise greater prosperity for America.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.”

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Book:The Truth (with jokes)

Source: The Truth (with jokes)

“I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.”

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Author:Anson Mount

“In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.”

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Author:Greg Mortenson

“In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.”

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Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

“I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.”

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Author:Peter Mullan

“I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.”

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Author:RJ Mitte

“When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.”

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Author:Bob McDonnell

“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.”

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Author:China Mieville

“As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.”

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Book:McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union

Source: McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union

“I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.”

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Author:Steve Zahn

“Military police is very timely for our army.”

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Author:Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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

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Author:George W. Bush

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