Jim Mattis Quotes

We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.

Our military is trained to kill our enemies in foreign lands, not to do civilian law enforcement within our country.

The Chinese military is on a different page from the Chinese civilian leadership.

In a democracy such as ours military policy is dependent on public opinion.

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

I don't live under the illusion we don't need a military to protect this country.

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

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

Our military forces are an arm of government, just like the Department of Social Welfare, although probably less able to inflict widespread harm

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

What's the point of having this superb military your always talking about if we can’t use it?

Considering standing armies as dangerous to free governments in time of peace, I shall not seek to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of political experience which teaches that the military should be held subordinate to the civil power.

I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

The involvement of the government in military adventures always results in the expansion, at least temporarily, of Presidential power.

The political system must listen to the military.

The military executes policy decisions.

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.

Our United States military is not our threat.

In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to much more parliamentary scrutiny than before. The National Security Council, through which the military used to exercise influence over the government is now a purely consultative body. But Turkish society still sees the military as the guarantor of law and order. The army is trusted, held in high regard - though not by dissident liberals. When things go wrong, people expect the military to intervene, as they've intervened over and over again in Turkish history.

Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.

Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

We have the best-trained military in the world.