Quotes and Sayings About Troops
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We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
-- Adam Schiff -
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
-- Al Franken -
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
-- Al Gore -
Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.
-- Ann Coulter -
Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?
-- Ann Coulter -
Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.
-- Antoine-Henri Jomini -
We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
-- Arlen Specter -
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
-- Black Kettle -
But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
-- Bob Schieffer -
In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.
-- Christopher Vokes -
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.
-- David Bonderman -
Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.
-- David Corn -
Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.
-- David Cross -
That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
-- David Hackworth -
You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.
-- Diane Ravitch -
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
-- Don Meyer -
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
-- Duke of Wellington -
The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!
-- Eleanor of Aquitaine -
There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.
-- Erwin Rommel -
The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.
-- Erwin Rommel -
The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
-- Francois Hollande -
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche