Troops Quotes · Page 9

Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home.

— Mike Rogers

Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

— Christopher Titus

One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

— Nick Clooney

Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

— George W. Bush

We owe it to our troops to make policy that strengthens America now and in the future.

— Conor Lamb

If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming…

— George W. Bush

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

— John Ensign

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president…

— John Culberson

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order…

— Dennis Hastert

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to…

— Jan Schakowsky

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few…

— Malcolm X

You stood up for the nation to protect and save all of us citizens of this country. You are ready to sacrifice…

— Nina Rommel

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but…

— Jay Rockefeller

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their…

— Kofi Annan

We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It…

— Barack Obama

There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its…

— Barack Obama

I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as…

— William J. Duiker

Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the…

— Hermann Goring

This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is…

— Wilhelm Keitel

The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out…

— Sun Tzu

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury…

— Jack McDevitt

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

— Marty Meehan

We know we want to support our troops. We want to make sure that they have all the equipment they need.

— Allyson Schwartz

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

— Zhuge Liang

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared…

— Jennifer Granholm

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“The use of the shemagh and keffiyeh had been adopted by US troops since the war in Iraq”

— Matthew Mather

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the…

— George McGovern

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.

— Dennis Kucinich

We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Joe Biden

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

— Michele Bachmann