Officers Quotes

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

I know there are officers who do good. There are a whole lot.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

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

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

I'm a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they've got to be held accountable.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.