#officer

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#advocate #challenge #conviction #coup #even

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#army #character #i #i am #officer

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind. ↗

— Colin Powell

#ask #because #behind #children #giving

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#artillery #been #enough #guns #know

Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project. ↗

— Wolfgang Staudte

#interested #officer #only #project #russian

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. ↗

— James Stockdale

#fighter #i #officer #squadron

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. ↗

— George Tenet

#agency #any #best #came #case

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church. ↗

— Charles Williams

#comments #day #divine #does #foundation

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#changed #course #encounter #entered #enthusiasm

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#defense #intelligence #might #military #missile