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I am now a commander of the British Empire.
I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
My father would be an amazing, amazing commander in chief.
I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.
As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
I always said my favorite position was company commander in the Paratroop Brigade.
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
It's something I take very seriously as a commander: the lives of our young men and women.
Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.
I forgive everyone who caused my suffering, even the pilot, commander, people controlling me.
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
I fought for years in South Sudan for the unity of Sudan. I was a commander in the fields, fighting for the unity of Sudan.
My dad was a commander in the U.S. Navy with three daughters - you can imagine the tight ship that was our family household!
A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
'Commander in Chief' became a show not about why we should have a woman president but why we should not have a woman president.
I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
Puerto Rico's participation per capita in the armed forces is more than most states, yet they can't vote for their commander in chief.
My grandfather was a commander in the Navy. He was very proud of his service, and he lived his entire life as though he was still serving.
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.
I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading. It is real teamwork on Soyuz.
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock.
I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you're the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.
I have to admit that all of us creatively involved with 'Commander' absolutely intended to put the term 'Madam President' into the zeitgeist. I can't deny it.
I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it.