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You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

topic: Flip, Chiefs, Commander In Chief, Flip Flops

quote in battles two things are usually required of the commander in chief to make a good winston churchill Quotes

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

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topic: Real, Chiefs, Commander In Chief

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

- Winston Churchill

source: Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

topic: Strong, Army, Two, Commanders, Commander In Chief

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

- Barack Obama

topic: Military, President, Doe, Commander In Chief

You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

- Barack Obama

source: "Republicans rue 'dysfunctional dates'". "The World Today" with Peter Cave, www.abc.net.au. October 3, 2011.

topic: Men, Want, Uniforms, Military Leadership, Commander In Chief

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: War, Chiefs, Humans, Human Will, Commander In Chief

The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly, people see these issues as probably the clearest window into somebody's temperament, their judgment, whether they're steady or volatile.

- Tim Kaine

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topic: Issues, Two, People, Commander In Chief

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.

- Claire McCaskill

topic: Guy, Chiefs, Commander In Chief

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

- Mark Twain

topic: Father, Army, Men, Our Father, Pet Names

My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

- Ralph Abraham

source: "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

topic: Military, Advice, Next, Commander In Chief

I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.

- Phil Roe

topic: Powerful, Military, Believe, Commander In Chief

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

- William Falconer

source: William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Fate, Important, May, Commander In Chief

We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more faith in military leadership who have all of the combat experience. It’s bad policy to try to micromanage too much operationally and tactically from a desk in the Oval Office.

- Lee Zeldin

source: "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

topic: Military, Office, Trying, Military Leadership, Commander In Chief

I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

- Lindsey Graham

source: "Republican Candidates "Undercard" Debate in Boulder, Colorado". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 28, 2015.

topic: Strong, War, Winning, Commander In Chief

National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state] face and what we have to do about it and if you can't articulate that as a candidate, you cannot be commander-in-chief.

- Marco Rubio

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topic: Government, President, Faces, Commander In Chief

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

- Don Young

topic: Entering, Next, Conflict, Commander In Chief

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

topic: Military, Real, India, Commander In Chief

The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.

- Erich von Manstein

topic: Military, Army, Men, Commander In Chief

One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.

- Barack Obama

topic: Men, Thinking, Talking, Executive Branch, Intelligence Officers

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

- Bobby Jindal

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topic: Military, Believe, America, American Exceptionalism, Commander In Chief

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

- Horatio Nelson

topic: Mean, Enemy, Battle, Commander In Chief

As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.

- Ted Cruz

topic: Jobs, Giving, Decision, Commander In Chief

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

- Oliver North

topic: Fighting, Winning, Two, Commanders, Commander In Chief

Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama admits Israel has good reason for scepticism over Iran nuclear deal" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2013.

topic: Leadership, Wisdom, Spring, Obtaining, Commander In Chief

The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.

- Ted Cruz

source: Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

topic: Russia, Iran, Enemy, Commander In Chief, Cyber Warfare

For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

- Ellen Willis

source: "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

topic: Crush, Zero, Mistake, Zero Tolerance, Commander In Chief

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

topic: Enemy, Should, Chiefs, Commanders, Commander In Chief

The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Confused, Quality, News, Commanders, Commander In Chief

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

- John R. Allen

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topic: Needs, Chiefs, Knows, Commander In Chief

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

- George W. Bush

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topic: Men, Ideas, Trying, Women In Combat, Commander In Chief

I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.

- Samantha Power

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topic: Thinking, Numbers, Effort, Isil, Commander In Chief

I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

- Robert Jeffress

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Fighting, Thinking, Leader, Commander In Chief

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

- Barack Obama

source: Twitter post from Oct 22, 2012

topic: Jobs, People, Safe, Commander In Chief

The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are his arm in working with the Defense Department. And, quite frankly, they have responsibility for all of the government. We are one component of the government.

- Chuck Hagel

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Responsibility, Government, People, Commander In Chief, Security Council

If you look at the way Donald Trump has treated law enforcement, if you look at the way he's treated the military, this is a man who fully understands the burden of leadership and the responsibility he has as the commander in chief.

- Sebastian Gorka

topic: Military, Responsibility, Men, Commander In Chief

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

- Sarah Palin

source: Source: www.today.com

topic: War, Islamic, Winning, Islamic Extremists, Commander In Chief

What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.

- John R. Allen

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topic: Military, Illegal Things, Track, Commander In Chief, United States Military

We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Country, Sacrifice, Men, Commander In Chief

I would let the military commanders give the commander in chief options rather than tell them what you want to hear. Not having gotten those options, I can't tell you if we are going to have boots on the ground but certainly, a more expanded role for the special operators would be essential. And being more effective in strikes as it is relates to the air.

- Jeb Bush

source: "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

topic: Military, Air, Giving, Commander In Chief

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

- Rudy Giuliani

source: Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

topic: Looks, Chiefs, Ready, Mccain, Commander In Chief

To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

- Carly Fiorina

source: Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

topic: War, Tough Times, Decision, Stood Up, Commander In Chief

One of the things I would immediately do [as Commander in Chief ], in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class - Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President [Barack] Obama things that he didn't want to hear.

- Carly Fiorina

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