supporting troops Quotes

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

I love and respect the Armed Forces.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

I've do a lot of USO shows and do whatever I can to support the military.

If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.

I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there.

I think life is hard at the combat outposts, and anything that distracts us from supporting them, in my mind, is something that we shouldn't do.

If you hate the war, that’s fine. But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

I know that virtually every member of the Senate understands we just cannot turn our back on men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend us and who are hurting today.