I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.
Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.
We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it.
The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.
We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.
The army did more to shape the pattern and direction of economic development than did any other federal agency, any state government, or any private agency.
I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.
It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
