I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in ’67. That program got cancelled in ’69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. – Robert Crippen
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching. – Ralph Regula
The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. – Paul Cook
I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on many levels, and I was driven in the military and at Harvard, both competitive environments. – Paula Broadwell
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts. – Russ Feingold
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. – Quincy Jones
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors. – Ray Mabus
North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation’s military forces. – Robin Hayes
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. – Olivier Messiaen
If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it. – Peter T. King
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment – this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. – Robert Jay Lifton
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. – Peter DeFazio
Well, in the first place, military service, they don’t call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation. – Rick Warren
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. – Richard Leakey
The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas’s tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about. – Richard Engel
To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized. – Peter DeFazio
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy. – Robert Kiyosaki
In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they’ve got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what’s been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option. – Oliver North
We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us. – Philip Hammond
I don’t think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place. – Pamela Adlon
Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes. – Richard Engel
The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. – Timothy Noah
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. – Smedley Butler
Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453. – Stephen Kinzer
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization. – Vladimir Putin