"Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters,……" — Stuart Symington
"Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done."
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15 Quotes by Stuart Symington
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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they…
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Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and…
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My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew…
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Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I…
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If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
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In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its…
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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary…
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The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was…
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But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy.…
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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it…
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It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in…
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People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the…
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people…
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going…
— Michael Mullen
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The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of…
— Unknown Author
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Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
— Reuben Fine
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or…
— Howard Zinn
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Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
— David Sirota
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Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu…
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