Commanders Quotes · Page 2

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

— Rudy Giuliani

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

— Ulysses S. Grant

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

— Newt Gingrich

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

— Ishida Mitsunari

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

— John R. Allen

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

— Erwin Rommel

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

— Horatio Nelson

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

— Jack Nicholson

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

— George W. Bush

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“weaker commanders would get a solid explanation about the burden of command and the deep meaning of responsibility: the leader is truly…

— Jocko Willink

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not…

— Aristotle

National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state]…

— Marco Rubio

I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from…

— John F. Kennedy

Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your…

— Ryan Zinke

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself,…

— Horatio Nelson

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is…

— Idi Amin

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the…

— Plutarch

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and…

— H. L. Mencken

I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges…

— Samantha Power

The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be…

— Alexander Hamilton

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense…

— Henry Adams

We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they…

— Hillary Clinton

What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards,…

— James Mattis

If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have…

— George W. Bush

Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence,…

— Seymour Hersh

Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of context. Any…

— D. C. Fontana

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

— Marco Rubio

I think what more and more Americans are concluding is that Donald Trump is not a man who is qualified to be…

— Hillary Clinton

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear.…

— George W. Bush

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Donald Trump poses a serious threat to America, based on what he has said. He is unqualified to be president and he…

— Hillary Clinton

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's…

— George W. Bush

We cannot promote someone to Commander-in-Chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment Hillary…

— Chris Christie

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Donald Trump is just unfit, unprepared, just doesn't get it, shouldn't be the commander in chief of America.

— Julian Castro

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper…

— Anonymous

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's…

— Barack Obama