Martha McSally Quotes

Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

I can't say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.