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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president. -- Karen Hughes
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. -- Alexandra Kosteniuk
What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?' -- Ross Kemp
The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths. -- Sinclair Lewis
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district. -- Alex Berenson
Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American. -- John F. Kerry
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today. -- Lois Lowry
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army. -- Zebulon Pike
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men. -- Sun Tzu
Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. -- Bulent Ecevit
I take pride in saying that I am an army officer's daughter even more than being an actor. -- Anushka Sharma
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. -- Antony Beevor
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command. -- Mike Jackson
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. -- Chesty Puller
We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies. -- Sergei Lavrov
The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times. -- Kim Young-ha
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused. -- Fritz Kreisler
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason. -- Eion Bailey
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. -- James A. Michener
Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says. -- Jack Reed
As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families. -- Allen Boyd
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know. -- Idi Amin
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight. -- Karen Abbott
I have two sons. Both served. One as a marine officer in Iraq, one as an army officer in Afghanistan. I do not see - want to see one parent or loved one worrying about getting a call in the middle of the night. I would not place one American life at risk unless it was absolutely necessary. But to destroy ISIS, it is necessary. -- George Pataki
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers. -- Thucydides
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers. -- Joe Haldeman
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. -- Lord Randolph Churchill

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