Lawrence Korb quotes

“It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.”
-- Lawrence Korb

#Soldier Quotes #Cost Quotes #Politics Quotes

“There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.”
-- Lawrence Korb

#Numbers Quotes #Training Quotes #Dying Quotes

“If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.”
-- Lawrence Korb

#Kuwait Quotes #Giving Quotes #Carrots Quotes

“This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.”
-- Lawrence Korb

#Military Quotes #Men Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.”
-- Lawrence Korb

Source : Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

#Needs Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Spending Quotes

“The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.”
-- Lawrence Korb

#Military Quotes #White Quotes #House Quotes

“Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 319), 1943.

“These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges”

“Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.”

“There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.”

“LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”

“We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

“In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might”

Source : Pat Parker (1999). “An Expanded Edition of Movement in Black”

“The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.”

Source : Alister E. McGrath (1999). “The Unknown God: Searching for Spiritual Fulfilment”, p.50, Lion Books

“That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many”

“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”