“Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.” WantStuffWaitingMinutesMilitaryOfficialsNot InterestedAgricultureMissilesBriefing Author:Sean William Scott
“Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.” IfsMeanGovernmentBrainEducationSupportEconomyDemocracyMilitaryGeniusDemocraticProductionsDefenseOur FutureWorthlessGuardianReally MeanMissilesBombersSystems Of GovernmentBrain Power Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low.” PeopleWorldHumorAmericaPoliticalCertainMilitaryThis WorldLowsTerrorAdministrationMissilesMadmenMoralePolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.” MenSaidWarUseHeavenPeaceMilitaryMetsGreat MenUniformsTerrifiedMissilesBishops Author:Clare Boothe Luce
“These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this first-strike strategy, the West believes it could attack Russian military installations with such effectiveness that serious retaliation would be impossible.” GivingFirstsBelieveWarHelpingWould BePeaceImpossibleGenerationsMilitarySeriousStrategyWestStrikesCapabilityEffectivenessMissilesNew GenerationNatoCruiseDeploymentRetaliationInstallationRussian Military Author:Petra Kelly
“All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).” ThreeMilitaryPaidMathematicsInstitutionsDividedMechanicCiaCelestialMissilesNasaSubmarinesKgbCryptography Author:Vladimir Arnold
“Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.” WorldMeanCountryReasonSecurityMilitaryPositionConsequenceConcernVery GoodIsraelSignificantNervousReason WhyIranRelativeDeniedHolocaustMissilesHezbollah Author:Barack Obama
“There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.” ThinkingWorldNeedsWarCountryDoneGovernmentRunningCoursesBitsHeardMilitaryDrugHarmWar Of The WorldsBombsWorld War IiWorld War IDictatorReservesCiaMissilesFederal ReserveSecretiveCoups Author:Ron Paul
“The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.” GivingFeelsLittlesCountryEnemyMilitaryWeaponsBasesMedicineNuclearOur CountryNuclear WeaponsThreatenedDoing NothingMissilesMilitary Bases Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“Iraq began destroying those missiles they don't have over the weekend. See, President Bush may be the smartest military president in history. First, he gets Iraq to destroy all of their own weapons. Then he declares war.” FirstsMayWarPresidentMilitaryWeaponsIraqDestroyingWeekendPresident BushMissiles Author:Jay Leno
“European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.” WorldFirstsWarFactsWould BeUsedFeltCausesFiveMinutesMilitaryDangerMovementSixUnionsStrikesVulnerableWar Of The WorldsSoilSovietWorld War IiWorld War ISoviet UnionInfrastructureMissilesDeployment Author:Petra Kelly
“I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.” LittlesStatesSpeakBitsMilitaryExerciseLittle BitProgramDefenseNosesPutinMissilesPolandMissile Defense Author:Carly Fiorina
“As a matter of fact, although we had some terrible challenges and temptations when I was in office, we never dropped a bomb... we never launched a missile... and we never fired a bullet. I think that one of the main requirements for a strong military, like a strong submarine force, is to prevent war, not to cause war.” ThinkingWarMatterFactsStrongForceCausesChallengesMilitaryTerribleOfficeTemptationBombsBulletsRequirementsMissilesMatter Of FactSubmarines Author:Jimmy Carter
“Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.” AmericaMilitaryPositionBuildingJudgingProtectEuropeUnionsDemocratPostsCommunistRebelSovietSoviet UnionFundingShieldsMissilesAllegationsAnti Communist Author:Ann Coulter
“In 2009, US President [Barack] Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with Iran that bans Tehran from developing a potential military nuclear project.” SaidPresidentMilitaryProjectsInternationalProtectionDefenseNuclearBarackDevelopingIranMissilesBansTreatiesIranianPresident Barack ObamaUs PresidentTehranNuclear MissilesMissile Defense Author:Vladimir Putin
“The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.” LongWarFactsMilitaryWestInterventionMissilesNatoSerbiaYugoslaviaBombardedMilitary InterventionBelgrade Author:Vladimir Putin
“Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.” CountryNumbersMilitaryCrisisSouthVietnamPigsInvasionMissilesCubanAdviserCuban Missile CrisisBay Of Pigs Author:Kitty Kelley