Air power Quote by John Thomason

You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you…

— Ted Cruz

We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

— Joe Sutter

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.

— Stuart Symington

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

— Will Oldham

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some…

— Albert Einstein

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing.

— Assar Lindbeck

As a result, we cannot guarantee that a plane set to ram into the Kremlin will be shot down or that a plane that…

— Viktor Ilyukhin

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

— Jaron Lanier

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

— US Air Force Manual

I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.

— Mathias Rust

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build…

— Ross Perot

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

— Billy Mitchell