#military

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. ↗

— John Stockwell

#attention #bowl #diverting #effective #military

The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#complicated #else #everybody #everybody else #family

To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#badly #both #course #credit #denying

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#also #canada #college #engineer #graduated

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#army #bit #career #drawn #father

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#combat #experience #fewer #increasingly #journalists

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#cause #freedom #just #know #message

We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#ascendant #core #core values #economy #freedom

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#carrying #dangerous #dangerously #doing #european

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. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#been #did #exposed #first #had