Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Shelton

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

Hugh Shelton

Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.

Hugh Shelton

Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.

Hugh Shelton

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

Hugh Shelton

The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

Harold Russell

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

Harold Russell

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

Zebulon Pike

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

Zebulon Pike

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Zebulon Pike

At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

Zebulon Pike

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

Creighton Abrams

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Creighton Abrams

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Oliver North

I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

Robert Patterson

When I first began working on music in portrait orientation, it was one of the most liberating experiences I've ever had in Finale.

Henry Knox

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

Henry Knox

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

Calamity Jane

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

Christopher Gadsden

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

Christopher Gadsden

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.

Christopher Gadsden

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

Christopher Gadsden

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

John Abizaid

The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can emerge there that would be friendly and conducive to the form of ideology that bin Laden, Zawahiri and Zarqawi believe in.