#military

We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#citizen #military #military bases #moving #nation

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#allows #american #american people #country #go

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#campaigned #carl #complex #destruction #end

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#incredibly #military #parents #strict #style

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #guard #influence #military-industrial

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#every #interest #military #nuclear #nuclear power

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#being #dangerous #force #iran #military

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

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#capable #countries #expect #i #i think