"But clearly, this is what this is about.……" — David Petraeus
"But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here."
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David Petraeus
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25 Quotes by David Petraeus
David Petraeus has 25 quotes on this site.
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When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully…
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This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.
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I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago - I mean, there's no question that there were…
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If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate…
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People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is,…
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I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.
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The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
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If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark…
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I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
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The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from…
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After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.
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Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.
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More Bubble Quotes
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This world's a bubble.
— Saint Augustine
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's…
— Christina Aguilera
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The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many…
— Graydon Carter
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
— Henri Poincare
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch…
— George Santayana
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I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to…
— George Eads
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I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
— Roddy Piper
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And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They…
— Nate Saint
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship…
— Unknown Author
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I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to…
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