Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Search Results For `Civilian`

You can always add more terms to your search to narrow down your results.

Quotes Which Include `Civilian`

wave spectacular smashing sky
After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.


Chris Kyle
sky clouds light sunlight
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.


Yehuda Amichai
Tags: Live Try Human
wave spray foam sea water surf
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.


Donald Rumsfeld
flower colorful garden bloom
It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.


Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
Gene Luen Yang
Tags: About Lot Every
schuster plate dolomites mountains
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.


Barry Goldwater
Tags: You About Going
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
Stephen Kinzer
The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.
Sarah Palin
Tags: Like Would Lot
As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
Matthew Hayden
Tags: You Get How
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson
Tags: War Out Which
Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.
Mark Dayton
Tags: Life Been Much
An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.
Ivica Dacic
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
Norm Dicks
Tags: Design New Part
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.
John Yoo
Tags: Never Any Even
The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.
Neil Sheehan
Tags: Very Had Been
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
Steve Buyer
Tags: Women Men Who
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
Ahmed Chalabi
Tags: Work People Life
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
W. Averell Harriman
Tags: War Get Had
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.
Noam Chomsky
The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like Apple, Starbucks, Oakley the sunglasses manufacturer. Even Google, and a lot of big corporations like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, and Nestle, that you don't normally think of as defense contractors.
Nick Turse
Tags: You Me Like
When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
Michael Hayden
Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population.
Michael Mullen
Tags: Women Men People
In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
Mark Hamill
Tags: Me Like About