Troops Quotes · Page 11

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't…

— Barack Obama

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

— John Perry Barlow

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

— John McCarthy

It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.

— Barack Obama

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

— Jose Serrano

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of…

— Anonymous

Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the…

— Barack Obama

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

— Christopher Vokes

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary…

— Major Owens

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and…

— Elliott Abrams

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic…

— David Hackworth

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA…

— John Salazar

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past…

— Jim Ryun

I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in…

— Larry Hagman

Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an…

— Hugh Miller

Our approach is very simple we have nothing to negotiate ... We have the Minsk format and we need immediately just a…

— Petro Poroshenko

In Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was…

— Jay Leno

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with…

— Nick Turse

Be tough, hold a tough line, but don't be running off into another war, especially since even if you support our troops…

— Chris Matthews

The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good…

— Noam Chomsky

The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has…

— John le Carre

When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom…

— John Pilger

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

— Jefferson Davis

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it…

— Winfield Scott Hancock

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

— Michele Bachmann

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

— Joe Biden

Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

— Gary Sinise

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

— Hillary Clinton

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

— Phyllis Schlafly

We don't have enough American troops inside of Iraq to destroy ISIL any time soon.

— Lindsey Graham

WWE is a huge supporter of our troops. Part of my love and admiration for our men and women in the military…

— Eve Torres

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

— Brian Higgins

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

— Ron Suskind

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

— Jane Fonda

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part…

— Peter Pace

The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

— Joseph Stilwell

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear…

— Joseph Hall