Troops Quotes - Page 5

• To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

  John Hewson

  War, Ships, Ridiculous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cuando estéis ante el altar donde reposa Cristo, no debéis pensar ya que estáis entre hombres, sino creer que hay tropas de ángeles y arcángeles que están a vuestro lado y tiemblan de respeto ante el soberano Dueño del cielo y de la tierra. Por tanto, cuando estéis en la iglesia, permaneced allí en silencio, con temor y veneración.

  San Juan Crisóstomo

  Creer, Angel, Hombres

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• Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Grateful, Government, Iraq

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• We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

  Adam Schiff

  Numbers, Engagement, Increase

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• I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Believe, Issues, Attention

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• The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Heart, Ideas, Long

  Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• Quería hacer lo que hizo Marilyn Monroe (durante la guerra de Corea), cuando montó un escenario e hizo un concierto para las tropas ella sola. Es increíble ver a una mujer que va a alguna parte, una hermosa gatita sexual, que es básicamente una pin-up, que es lo que siempre he aspirado a ser.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Belleza, Sexo, Guerra

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• I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. This is a body based in The Hague where unaccountable judges, prosecutors, could pull our troops, our diplomats up for trial. And I wouldn't join. And I understand that in certain capitals of, around the world that that wasn't a popular move. But it's the right move not to join a foreign court that could, where our people could be prosecuted.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, Judging

  "Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court". www.democracynow.org. October 01, 2004.

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• We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.

  Barack Obama

  Militar, Hogar, Hombres

  Un nuevo comienzo: Discurso en la Universidad de El Cairo, pronunciado el 4 de junio de 2009, El Cairo, Egipto

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• Cada Thanksgiving, Barack se sienta a llamar a algunas de nuestras tropas para agradecerles su servicio. Cuando me habla de estas conversaciones, siempre me recuerda lo afortunados que somos de vivir en un país en el que hombres y mujeres se levantan para proteger nuestras libertades y preservar nuestro modo de vida. Y cada vez que he tenido la oportunidad de reunirme con estos héroes y sus familias, siempre he salido inspirado por su valor y asombrado por su fortaleza.

  Michelle Obama

  País, Héroe, Bendito

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• There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Russia, Kgb, Events

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• Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

  Tom Lantos

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rags, Purpose, Flags

  Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.

  Jon Stewart

  Iraq, Spain, Duets

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• The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

  Russel Honore

  Military, Fire, Years

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

  John Spratt

  Risk, Dollars, Cost

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• Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

  Thomas Browne

  Errors, Enemy, Reform

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 6

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• A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

  Aristide Briand

  Country, Justice, Battle

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• O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Optimism, Trends, Optimist

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• I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Party, Believe, Evil

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”

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• And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

  John R. Allen

  Real, Difficult Situations, Soldier

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• In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Yugoslavia, Prime, Ministers

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• También sé que hay mucha gente en Estados Unidos que quiere que mi marido gane y que está a su favor y que apoya a nuestras tropas en Irak y Afganistán. Y también me siento bien con esa gente.

  Laura Bush

  Marido, Ganar, Irak

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• We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

  Marek Belka

  Responsibility, Iraq, Madrid

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• Debemos a nuestras tropas algo más que retórica; les debemos un plan real. La Administración aún no ha presentado una estrategia para lograr la estabilidad en Irak, poner fin al conflicto y traspasar la soberanía al pueblo iraquí y al nuevo gobierno iraquí.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Real, Gobierno, Iraq

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