"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."

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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."

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"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."

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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."

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"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."

Rob Simmons, American Politician

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"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."

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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."

"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."

"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."

"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."

"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."

"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."

"I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed."

"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."

"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."

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"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

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