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Already the scent of victory is in the air.
The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.
You have to take a plan that might work and make it work
You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.
I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.
I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey.
I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.
What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.
It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.
Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.
It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.
Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.
You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.
It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.
This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.
A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.
I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...
I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.
China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.
The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.
Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.
My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.
There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.
We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.
Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.
It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.
President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.
I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.
Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this.
I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.
People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.
We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.
I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.
When we started after Osama bin Laden, we really decided to go after the Taliban. And we seemed to be content to kick the Taliban out of Kandahar. And then we let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.
Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.
Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.