Troops Quotes - Page 3

The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

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.

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

Who could not conquer with such troops as these?

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

Feed the troops on victory.

In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families.

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.