Kit Bond Quotes

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Nobody wants to go to war, but the burden of service cannot fall only on volunteers who, are attracted to the military for financial reasons.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.

You know, I had gone to war.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

I'm glad I never went to war.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.