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Our military leaders have studied the climate change issue and now believe that mitigating climate change is an urgent national security issue.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.
You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.
Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?
Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.
I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.
My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
How can it be that we laugh about England's obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service.
I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
If we can make more diverse colors, people, stories, it will be interesting. Uniforms are for the military and the police, not for our thinking.
A family's love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.
As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
We get our military people to come back and make recommendations to me and I will follow those recommendations. I will follow them very strongly.
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.
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
It's been so important that the Chamber of Commerce, for example, has hosted hiring fairs that are specifically targeted to military communities.
You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.
Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
I used to have a gun made every month; I would get another pistol made that I would design. I'm very into the military and police stuff like that.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.
We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.
Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.
The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.