Daniel Inouye Quotes

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The volunteer system must be replaced … Let us not be blind to the realities … The day we could put guns into the hands of citizen soldiers, teach the manual of arms and send them to match their spirit and brawn against an enemy has passed.

I want you for US Army

I feel that a period of service to the nation would be good for all of us, though I hope it will not be a purely military period. I have a great appreciation for the need for discipline and basic training in military methods, but above all, I believe we must develop the realization of every individual's responsibility in a democracy for his government. To me any period of training should stress this very clearly and should include service to the community. I believe both boys and girls should receive such training.

If frontier wars there chance to arise, and if thereupon we shall fortify, yet will occasion the training up of our youth in the discipline of war and make a number fit for the service of the wars and for the defense of our people there and at home.

A small country like Israel has compulsory military training. But countries like India, that are so much bigger, have no compulsory military training, so people don't understand how the military functions. They have no knowledge of how it works, no respect for it.

I'm a big fan of the military. I think we've got to preserve our military, no question about it.

After I arrived in the United States, I realized that in the army, Israelis learn how to be part of something bigger than themselves.

We are extending basic training. It'll be the longest and toughest in the world.

A lot of my family is in army and it has always been inspirational for me to see them wearing the prestigious uniforms and their disciplined lifestyle. If I wasn't so passionate about cricket, I would have definitely been a soldier for my country.

I feel that our country's real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.

I'm a patriot... Like my late father who came here and served his country as a member of the U.S. Army.

No matter what, our American Army is so big, and we are so very thankful to them.

Our military members should be able to defend themselves here and abroad.

I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.

If there's one thing that unifies the nation in times of perpetual war it's the pledge to 'Support the Troops.'

I tried to join the RAF cadets at school so I could fly a plane but then I realised you had to do all the other cadet stuff like training before they let you in a plane. Then you're roped in for life.

My son's a West Point cadet.

When we are growing up, we all have our dreams - and for me, I idolised the men of the Indian army, navy, air force.

All young men should have a certain time in the Army, instead of going running around wild for a few years after school. They would learn discipline and they would learn a good trade. It would be a good opportunity.

Join the military, there is nothing better. You get to travel a lot.