Military Presence Quotes

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not even one American soldier and is located in a critical region for American national security.

You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

Russian control of Korea would be a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan,.

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now.

Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor?

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

We have to go in and win this war quickly, and then be prepared to help stabilize Iraq over an indefinite period, five to ten years, at a minimum, I believe, using a large fraction of American forces. This is a major undertaking that likely would require a total of 150,000 troops and could stay above 100,000 for several years

When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

There should be some English continually residing in every [Indian] Nation, whether Military Officers, or others, to keep up a continued correspondence'

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

Someone should tell the president that U.S. forces would need to be in Iraq for two to five years, and they will not have an easy time there.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

Establishing robust cyberdefenses no more militarizes cyberspace than having a navy militarizes the ocean.

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.