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I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.
Jill Ellis
Work
Time
Family
You
Care
Long
Gone
Military
Other
Long Periods
Know
Periods
Make
Because
Up
Families
Grew
Each
Dad
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.
Jim Costa
Best
Strength
Democracy
Peace
World
Prosperity
Community
Military
Other
Way
Best Way
Join
Countries
Global
Democratic
Safeguard
Forces
Permanent
Permanent Peace
Intentions
Form
China
Asia
Asian
Asian Countries
View
Growing
Military Strength
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
Jim Lehrer
Life
Experience
Military
Increasingly
Combat
Journalists
Like
Understand
Any
Fewer
Who
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.
Jim Mattis
Tough Times
Tough
Giving
Giving Up
Cowardice
Military
Consider
Way
Give
Simply
Know
Another
Another Way
Up
Times
Just
Forms
Cynicism
There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads.
Jim Mattis
People
Words
Fall
Sense
Military
Believe
Our
Would
Somehow
Touch
Restrictions
Troops
Had
Put
Heads
Always
Lot
Hearts
Just
Cant
Certain
Who
Things
I don't think the U.S. military is conservative. It's pragmatic.
Jim Mattis
Conservative
Military
Think
Pragmatic
Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.
Jim Mattis
Change
Country
Military
Lead
Never
Policy
Makers
Continue
Social
Social Change
Use
Who
Served
Most people know nobody in the military.
Jim Mattis
People
Military
Nobody
Know
Most
The military can buy our diplomats some time.
Jim Mattis
Buy
Time
Military
Our
Some
Diplomats
I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don't think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.
Jim Webb
Time
Me
Respect
Military
Every
Think
Every Time
Cares
Ounce
See
About
Him
Iota
Clinton
Up
Salute
Cannot
Happens
Bill
Bill Clinton
Conjure
Unit
Marine
Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.
Jim Webb
Culture
Events
Military
About
Attack
Seized
Major
Feminists
Been
Used
Bring
When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.
Jim Webb
Family
Mother
Old
Father
Gone
Military
Back
Kids
Through
Town
Know
She
Well
Years
Norm
Available
Four
Services
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
Jimmy Carter
Women
Decision
Military
Every
Types
Our
No Exception
Exception
Throughout
Obvious
Providing
Women Are
Register
Should
Skills
Profession
Now
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
Joe Baca
Women
Pride
Men
Men And Women
Military
Watershed
Our
Costly
America
Esteem
Uniform
Harbor
Moment
Lives
Assets
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.
Joe Haldeman
Day
People
Political
Mind
Power
Control
Military
Type
Those
Hopes
Weapons
Able
Never
Day-To-Day
Over
Because
Get
Done
Just
Want
Happens
Us
Use
Who
I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
Joe Haldeman
Training
Poet
Military
Every
Think
Would
Fact
Remained
Had
Written
Combat
Short
Just
In Fact
Short Story
Story
Then
Novel
Military Training
Now
Now And Then
Peacetime
Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
Joe Lieberman
War
Strength
Freedom
Cause
Party
Military
Our
Security
See
Threaten
Some
More
Know
Protect
Message
Send
Just
Use
Prepared
Military Strength
We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.
Joe Lieberman
Buy
Best
Women
Money
Strong
Men
Men And Women
Healthy
Military
Defense
Our
Ensure
Critical
Remains
Developed
Also
Make
Sure
Equipped
Very
America
Uniform
Manufacturing
Base
Technologies
Need
My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.
Joe Morton
Service
Father
Military
He
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Integrate
His
Overseas
Captain
I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.
Joe Nichols
Women
People
Men
Men And Women
Important
Military
Think
Our
Say
Hear
Really
Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
Joe Nichols
Service
Day
Strength
Character
Women
Every Day
Men
Men And Women
Military
Every
Everyone
Our
Saw
Inspiration
Share
Knew
Exhibit
Doing
Iraq
Get
Wanted
Then
Belief
Military Service
Film
I relate with military families and Gold Star families. Gold Star families are families where somebody didn't come home. My father died in 1949. He was a flight instructor in the Army Air Corp.
Joe Walsh
Home
Army
Father
Somebody
Military
Relate
Air
He
Come
Instructor
Families
Died
Gold
Where
Flight
Star
Military caregivers play an essential role in the recovery process of our veterans and are more than deserving of our support.
Joey Chestnut
Veterans
Military
Our
More
Recovery
Support
Than
Role
Essential
Process
Play
Deserving
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.
John Abizaid
Military
Think
Side
Correct
Border
Area
Taliban
Well
Operating
Operations
Robust
Very
Conducting
Reports
Afghan
Where
Military Operations
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
John Abizaid
You
Military
Type
Know
Well
Operation
Very
Military Operation
The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.
John Barrasso
Will
Country
Controlling
Military
Defeat
Boots
Could
Taken
Over
Concern
Because
Iran
Ultimately
Iraq
Ground
Actually
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