Stuart Symington Quotes

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

Can I just finish the 2 wars we’re in before you go on to another.

The troops are at war, but the Pentagon is not.

Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government.

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.