Famous Quotes & Sayings

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Black Tigers are the self-protective armor of our race, ... They are the men of flame who can destroy the enemy's armed strength.

Richard Boucher

It's long been our position that cooperation between members of the Colombian armed forces and the paramilitary groups is unacceptable, and we welcome this decision by the courts,

Any Canadian has a right to know when a predator is in their midst. It is my view the job of local police forces to ensure that communities are armed with sufficient knowledge so that they can take necessary precautions.

Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest.

James Foley

As a practical matter ... we don't believe that the dispatch of armed U.N. peacekeepers before August 30 is possible at this point.

Ted White

On the way back, they were approached by a vehicle, and two men hopped out of that vehicle. Both were armed with handguns and demanded money and their belongings.

A customer inside called 9-1-1 at 2 this morning. This individual reported that two armed men had forced their way into the tavern, ordered everyone to lie down on the ground and proceeded to take money out of everyone's wallet.

Laura Bush

The Mongolian armed forces are serving the cause of freedom and the United States forces are proud to serve beside such fearless warriors, ... Now because of the courage of Mongolian and coalition forces, the people of Iraq know this feeling as well.

During the early hours of this morning, six armed men went into the house of a Democratic Republic of Congo national. They demanded diamonds, ransacked the house and, after finding nothing, poured boiling water over the 47-year-old woman and assaulted her 26-year-old son.

Jay Wright

There was a lot of security for our team, and the teams from Great Britain and Israel, ... We had armed security guards and soldiers with machine guns with us at all times. That was a wakeup call.

At least Jacob is prepared and armed and surrounded by guys who are there to protect him. Which a lot more than we are just walking down the street.

They never go out without an armed person,

They gave us the choice of hiring the guards but what can three young guards with pistols do if one is ambushed by 50 men armed with machine guns. It is illogical.

This is something that we have been screaming about for years. Our most vulnerable populations due to overexposure of their Social Security numbers are students, seniors and members of the armed forces.

This conflict could not be sustained by bandit groups of armed men without logistics support,

Thirty-six were released, two are missing and still with this armed group -- the AU team leader and the translator.

I told them he was armed and dangerous, he didn't care.

This place is full of weapons, full of militias, factions, armed groups, everyone now wants a share of the cake ... and this is something that takes time. This is not something that can be solved quickly.

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

Barry McCaffrey

This money is aimed at helping those nations' economies, judicial systems, police and armed forces, in hopes of re-establishing the rule of law,

Sergei Ivanov

This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to do away with three hundred high-rank command posts, after which the number of generals and admirals in the Armed Forces will not top 1,100 men, meaning their reduction to the optimal proportion of one per thousand servicemen,

There were lots of elements showing a mix, if I can call it that, between Islamic militants and armed robbers.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Republic of Korea, an impoverished and devastated nation over a half-century ago, now has one of the world's most powerful economies and is an important democracy with a large and increasingly capable armed force,

Zone Labs has always been known as the leader in complete Internet security solutions. Yet as hackers get more savvy and the PC becomes a commodity worth monetary value on the black market, consumers must also use care as they surf the 'Net. Armed with the right information, people can defend the integrity of the Internet and defeat those who would exploit it for criminal purposes.

Yugoslavian troops did not enter Albania. On the contrary, there were 6,000 ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists -- very well armed -- trying to infiltrate into Kosovo.

If he had gone to the board, they could have decided to continue his probation or reinstate the remaining two years on his original sentence for armed robbery.

I don't want to go in armed with a bunch of tunes -- I want to go in barefoot and unprepared. It's an ongoing relationship. We like the way he works, and he likes the way we work together, so I don't think it's even a question.

However, real unification of the armed forces is a prerequisite for elections that are free of human rights abuses, and for the success of future peace-building in the country,

I am more the patriot today as I march in protest and dissent than when I wore the uniform of a United States Marine. Nor am I less the warrior, armed with a bullhorn rather than an automatic weapon.

Jacques Chirac

The light of the writer and the dramatist who, by the power of the pen, armed solely with courage and his faith in mankind and truth, has nurtured the hopes of the oppressed who were denied democracy,

The first of the armed reconnaissance helicopters are scheduled to enter service by the end of 2004,

Tom Reilly

The computer networks that were attacked here provide important services to our government and our Armed Forces; they are not playgrounds for teenagers to explore,

Ricardo Sanchez

The honor and value systems of our armed forces are solid and the bedrock of what makes us the best in the world, ... There has been no catastrophic failure, and America's armed forces will never compromise their honor.