Coolio Quotes

I've spent most of my life like most Americans - without any immediate connection to active duty military.

I have a military background in my family.

Growing up, I had military members in my family.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

Though I speak as a soldier, I must deplore the dominating influence of the military

If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S.military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.'

As a soldier, I stand ready to serve and protect and defend this country. And as a soldier, I know the cost of war. And as president and commander-in-chief, I will end these regime-change wars.

Join the military, there is nothing better. You get to travel a lot.

We are proud of the role our military plays in Japan: defending our allies, ensuring regional peace and stability, and responding to humanitarian catastrophes.

Having a parent who served in the military has made me a better journalist.

Whenever I travel abroad, I try to visit U.S. troops just to say thanks.

I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.