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It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.
James Clapper
Intelligence
Intelligence Community
Community
Critic
Commander
Chief
Certainly
Helpful
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
Jim Talent
People
Circle
Whatever
Interview
Virtues
States
Must
Ability
General
Compromised
Allies
Had
Make
Within
Dealing
Go
Commander
His
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Represent
Afghanistan
Decisions
Act
Who
Strategist
United
United States
From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.
Jim Webb
Time
Me
Together
Goals
Marine Corps
Focus
Building
Energy
Corps
Immediate
Would
Rather
More
Inspired
Putting
Devote
Building Blocks
Traditional
Blocks
Commander
Cautious
Left
Infantry
Than
After
Decided
Predictable
Them
Vietnam
Company
Platoon
Serving
Career
Marine
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden
You
Constitution
Able
Give
Wrote
Him
Forces
How
Commander
Chief
Authority
Intention
Use
I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
John McCain
Training
Am
Commander
Chief
Fully
Prepared
Need
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
John Milius
Good
Director
Quality
Field
Admired
Good Quality
Something
Commander
Egotism
Movie
Movie Director
Tolerated
Even
Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.
Jon Meacham
President
Critical
Obama
Steely
Take
Weighing
Powerful
Re-Elect
Operation
Test
Exhibit
Commander
Account
Chief
American
Anyone
Whether
Should
Many
Bin
I want to make sure I have a system that allows me to know that the platoon sergeant and platoon commander aren't going to move at the same time when we come back from deployment. That sounds pretty simple, but it's really about data.
Joseph Dunford
Time
Me
Simple
Back
System
Pretty
About
Data
Come
Know
Make
Sure
Sounds
Commander
Same
Going
Move
Same Time
Want
Deployment
Really
Sergeant
Platoon
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Struggle
Battle
Speak
Men
Before
Soldiers
Ancient
Moralist
Era
Commander
His
Should
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
Kit Bond
Experience
National
Guard
Enough
Our
Kind
Missouri
Vermont
Commander
Years
National Guard
Chief
Did
Senator
Being
Note
We cannot afford to have a president who thinks he's some sort of global community organizer standing over America on one side and our adversaries on the other. America must have a Commander in Chief. Not a global community organizer.
Liz Cheney
Community
Other
President
Side
Our
We Cannot
Must
Some
He
Over
Adversaries
Global
Sort
Commander
Chief
Afford
America
Cannot
Organizer
Standing
Who
Thinks
I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.
Michael T. Flynn
Long
Too
Soldier
Entertain
Potential
Commander
Been
Chief
Any
Refuse
Request
I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
Mike Oldfield
Pilot
Thought
Become
Possible
Licence
Wing
Join
Although
Commander
Realised
By rejecting the Iranian nuclear deal, Congress can help achieve the original goal of isolating the bad actors in Iran - the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, its Quds Force commander Quassem Soleimani, and the radical clerics.
Mike Pompeo
Achieve
Congress
Radical
Guard
Corps
Bad
Force
Deal
Commander
Goal
Iran
Iranian
Revolutionary
Help
Original
Actor
Nuclear
Rejecting
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.
Mohammed Morsi
President
Arab
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Commander
Egypt
Stop
Republic
Full
As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.
Mohammed VI of Morocco
Ignorance
Fight
Women
Men
Islam
Faithful
Tolerance
Out
Case
Sees
Morocco
True
Always
Built
Commander
Been
Question
Violence
Need
I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
Naftali Bennett
Good
Think
Commander
Very
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
Richard Perle
Soldier
Airplane
Could
Computer
Remote
Well
Operational
Commander
Task
Done
Should
Assign
In cop shows, the police don't get to rag on each other and rag on their commander and rag on the person they just pulled over. That was all 'Reno' was, and I think that's all cops do 90 percent of their day.
Robert Ben Garant
Day
Police
Think
Other
Percent
Over
Reno
Commander
Person
Get
Just
Shows
Each
Rag
Cop
Cops
Pulled
I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.
Robert Wilkie
Family
You
Age
Post
Walk
Listening
Those
Had
Learned
Around
Commander
Very
Very Early Age
Order
Your
Early
Early Age
I've known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' from his days at Commander's Palace in New Orleans and from when I helped start the Food Network where he subsequently hosted an amazing 2,000-plus shows.
Robin Leach
Food
Amazing
Rich
More
Network
Food Network
Featured
Lifestyles
He
New
Days
Him
Known
Commander
His
Years
New Orleans
Than
Subsequently
Famous
Where
Helped
Shows
Palace
Orleans
Start
'Commander in Chief' became a show not about why we should have a woman president but why we should not have a woman president.
Rod Lurie
Woman
President
About
Became
Commander
Woman President
Chief
Should
Show
Why
I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it.
Rod Lurie
People
Enjoy
Promise
Would
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Still
Commander
Clinton
Chief
Hit
Want
Really
Show
I remember I did a character in 'Robocop' years ago - Commander Cash. I wore this really ridiculous outfit, and my face was covered. You couldn't recognize me in the suit; you could only hear my voice.
Roddy Piper
Character
Me
You
Remember
Face
Recognize
Outfit
Cash
Only
Voice
Could
Commander
Hear
Covered
Years
Years Ago
Did
Wore
Really
Ridiculous
Suit
Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital.
Romeo Dallaire
Country
Back
Guy
Directly
Troops
He
Stuff
Countries
Him
Although
Contingent
Commander
His
Provide
Senior
Capital
Really
Used
Who
Each
Now
Belong
Loaned
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
Sally Ride
Pilot
Space
Crew
Background
Astronauts
Test
Test Pilot
Commander
Space Shuttle
Standard
Shuttle
Two
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