Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities – both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received. – John Boehner
Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it. – Jim Walsh
It’s not just: you get off the plane, you’re back home, everything’s fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way. – Kevin Powers
As we’ve seen, deploying large armies abroad won’t always be our best offense. Countries typically don’t want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns. – John O. Brennan
In 1917 – as we have seen, – Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies. – Kelly Miller
I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things. – Jeff Daniels
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war. – John Yoo
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that’s just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It’s just crazy. – Jessica Lynch
I really like ‘Passion of the Christ.’ I like that movie. I also like ‘We Were Soldiers,’ and ‘Braveheart.’ And ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ – that movie was funny. – Luke Benward
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country’s birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon. – John Linder
For some individuals – some soldiers, some contractors – combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. – Kathryn Bigelow
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. – John Yoo
They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade. – John Paul Stevens
When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin – back when there was an East Berlin – I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it. – Kevin Bleyer
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done. – John Keegan
My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can’t enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it. – James A. Forbes
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did. – Janis Karpinski
Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill – mindlessly, out of control, for years. – Jody Williams
There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout. – Richard Engel
I’ve never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other. – Robert Fisk
I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers. – Roald Dahl
Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party. – Roger Stone
I’ve spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I’ve ever met. – Peter Berg
We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it’s an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. – Otto Schily