Quotes about "War & Peace"

I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something. ”

It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured. ”

Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another. ”

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal. ”

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific. ”

There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I have a friend who both protested the Iraq War and joined the military, and ended up serving two deployments in Afghanistan. ”

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms. ”

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism. ”

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking. ”

It's a professional military. You sign up and agree to allow your countrymen to use your life as they see fit for the next four years. And I think we all should have a greater role in ensuring that we use those lives wisely. ”