I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war the spokesman said 'Yes.'
The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
This war differs from other wars in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people and must make old and young rich and poor feel the hard hand of war.
If you want to fight a war on drugs sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
A man will go to war fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is as always plotting scheming working fighting.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
I have not yet begun to fight!
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it but truth is a point of view and so is changeable.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you don't fight it.
I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
Trust me you have to fight. When people are wrong you've got to let them know it.
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country fight for the values that he cares about.
I like ice hockey but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
Now I'm fighting cancer everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day and nothing is changed for me.
You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.
If you believe in your heart that you are right you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.