Joanne Liu Quotes

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

We have to keep up our guard. We won't get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility.

The CDC and the federal government have already admitted that they have failed to get ahead of the spread of Ebola in Texas, and we aren't going to let that happen in Florida.

I'd been to Mosul and back and forth to Iraq and Latin America, and it was all quite harrowing... and I felt like I wanted a month or two of total escapism.

Masks. Test Supplies. Ventilators. Gloves. Gowns. These are the most critical tools that our doctors, nurses and other first responders on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic need to continue their tireless work and save lives.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

War is not beautiful. Sometimes you see action sequences where battles seem organized. I know that from how the Vikings fought. It's not beautiful. It's hard. It's hard work.

As the COVID-19 situation evolves, we need to make sure we have enough medical professionals to care for people in need.

I don't have the experience of being in a war.

I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

I had no desire to go to Iraq. I never wanted to go to Mosul. I'm not a war correspondent. No part of me thrives on the adrenaline or anything like that.

I could quarantine forever.

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

The National Guardsmen and women in New Jersey have been on the front lines of our fight against COVID-19.

The thing that strikes a chord with me... as a mother... is to think of my 17-year-old son fighting would be just terrifying.

The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.

When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.