Famous Quotes & Sayings

I like the Army (planes) best, ... They're cool.

Maggie Dixon

I just want to start by saying that I've never been so proud of a group of young women as I was in the last four months. They have been through so much and really just kept fighting back. I'm so honored and proud to have the opportunity to coach these young women, and I'm looking forward to the future of Army basketball.

I joined the Army in July of 1969. I went to Vietnam in January of 1970 and was there for nearly two years. It was a whole different world over there. We knew what was going on in the states with the protesting, but we didn't dwell on that.

Robert Stewart

I joined the army 50 years ago, plus and served in combat cloths for close to 42 years.

Richard Russo

I loved the idea of having Paul Newman here, and that wonderful cast. I was particularly glad to see . . . that army of people, many of them local, who were set into motion by that film.

I'm sure John Walker is going to play great in his last Army-Navy game.

In general, given a choice between a device designed to be dedicated for a specific task (or a few tasks) and a general-purpose device that addresses the same needs -- without seeming like a clunky Swiss Army Knife device brick -- I'll take the general-purpose device every time.

Joe Nemechek

Not a great finish but an outstanding effort. We struggled in practice yesterday and I had concern. But Ryan (crew chief Ryan Pemberton) and the crew put a whole new setup in the car for the start of the race and let me tell you -- the Army Chevy was bad to the bone. One of the best cars I have ever driven. It was just incredible, I mean incredible on how good the car drove.

It was a combination of a couple of Army regulations that dealt primarily with SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) and joint publications that talked about CSAR (combat search and rescue),

Susan Collins

It's very troubling to this committee that the forensic teams looking into failure of the levees have not received complete and total cooperation from the Army Corps,

I want to emphasize that what happened here at Fort Stewart is not just a Fort Stewart issue, ... It's an Army issue. The people at Fort Stewart did what they could with what they had, but the Army has more assets and we'll focus those assets to solve any problems we've found here.

I wanted to know what was happening and what army life is like in Iraq.

Is this the day Matt will call and tell me he's coming home? Is this the day the Army will call and tell me he's dead?

Conan O'Brien

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

They were told by the Army that his body had been recovered.

There's so much spin in these numbers. A lot of facts get disguised. . . . Total manpower is meaningless. The army is the key force in direct combat.

There's no question that the events of early this week were very harmful to us. But the blame can fairly be placed on the large police and army forces that came here forcefully two weeks ago to place eviction notices on Jewish-owned homes. In any event, we have said that things got out of hand and that we did not have total control - but when we did regain control, things calmed down.

The United States has made a start here, training the army, but this goes beyond one partner and I hope others will come in,

Richard Engel

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.

I started varsity four years for coach Bender, and he was great to play for. Lee Robinson was the director at the Salvation Army and had me working on my ball-handling skills, shooting, defense. He helped me develop all parts of my game.

I spoke with a descendent named Jim Brace, who lives in St. Albans. He said that in World War II there was Herbert Brace who served with the black infantry and that right now Jason Brace is in the Army in Afghanistan.

This is the last MASH unit in the United States Army. We are excited that this MASH will live on in Pakistan.

This is very important and exciting research because it provides compelling physical evidence for the impact of louse-borne diseases on Grand Army troops during Napoleon's invasion of, and retreat from, Russia.

Duke of Wellington

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Duke of Wellington

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

Dorothy Dunnett

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

Claudia Kennedy

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

Rene Preval

In the past, the army caused trouble. There is no such organized force today.

In terms of NEO (non-combatant evacuation operations), obviously if the Indonesian army performs its job then there shouldn't be need for an evacuation,

Fidel Castro

In the army of the workers there must be discipline; there must be comradeship, there must be unity; you are the officers of this army, you are the leaders.

If you took at the cities getting these big Army divisions that are coming home (from overseas bases), I would guess we are the biggest single-city net gainer in the country.

It has dominated the media, ... There is deep worry about the image of the British army and deep worry about the effect on Iraqi elections.

Joel Davis

It has been suggested that you can trace the route of a modern army by looking at shell casings and used batteries.