Richard Myers Quotes

I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

The first boots on the ground in Afghanistan were my colleagues.

War? War is an organized bore.

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

I would not have had our troops in Iraq.

You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

I think war is a dangerous place.

The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States.

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.