“Militarized femininity: Wonder Woman, new Lara Croft series, Natalie Portman’s upcoming film, nearly all female leads and supporting roles in Star Wars. Warriors, generals, militant rebels, assassins. What is the marketable, empowered ‘feminine’ as a mirror to the ‘masculine’ in the most militarized…”— Mauro Sifuentes, facebook.com
“I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood. It—it—the north side of Richmond is predominantly black, OK? I went to—I went to an integrated school, a Catholic school. I served in the military. I don't need to be—I don't need to be lectured by a bunch of—by a bunch of limousine liberals, OK, from the…”— Steve Bannon, cbsnews.com
“Oh, Jerry, wake up to reality. It's military thing. They're probably creating a whole army of pig warriors.”— Larry Charles, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
“What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“Anyone has the ability to become a pilot or member of the Air Force if they put their mind to it.”— Airman Sofia Schmidt, airforce.com
“The only times I've been upset are when I wasn't able to save someone. If I happen to see a marine or a soldier in front of me that was shot or blown up, that's what was very upsetting to me.”— Chris Kyle, bbc.co.uk
“This was the first time I was gonna have to kill someone, which I didn't know if I was going to be able to even do it. You know, man, woman, or whatever. And I'm sure the pause was a lot shorter than what it felt like internally.”— Chris Kyle, bbc.co.uk
“As I watch millennial men struggle to lift their bags into the overhead bin I am reminded how f'd we are if there's a draft.”— Tomi Lahren, twitter.com
“A new recruit in the military was looking for a sheet of paper. He would look for a particular sheet of paper no matter the day and weather. He refused to tell anyone what the sheet of paper was about, so after a week of this recruit searching high and low for the sheet of paper, the psychiatrist de…”— Im_Tsuikyit, reddit.com
“There are Muslim women wearing hijab in our nation’s military. Whether it’s hijab or beards or turbans, to cling to these outdated ‘traditions’ merely out of a sense of not wanting to change anything is, I think, untenable in this day and age and in our increasingly diverse society.”— Ibrahim Hooper, washingtonpost.com
“Our police officers are doing an incredible job keeping us as safe as possible, but the job is getting harder for them because they aren't getting the support they need. Like our military, they must have whatever equipment they need to protect themselves and all our honest, hardworking citizens. Gov…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Many of the lessons I've learned in business are applicable to our current situation. The most important lesson is this—Stand behind your word, and make sure your word stands up. People who have done business with me will tell you that I never say something unless I mean it. I don't make promises I…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“We're spending billions of dollars protecting countries that should be paying us to do the job yet we can't build roads in our own cities. We can't build schools in our own communities. I've been to China numerous times, and everywhere you look there are cranes reaching toward the sky. The Chinese b…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“What kind of country sends their young men and women off to fight for them and then, when they come back, tells them, “Sorry, but while you were gone other people got all the jobs”?”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Right now the VA is being run by people who don’t know what they’re doing. They’re getting more money from the government than ever before and yet the care gets worse. The list of men and women waiting for care is growing and their wait times are longer. How can the VA possibly be so inefficient? We…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“How in the world can we talk about how much we love this country when we’re not taking care of the people who protect us?”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“We need to make this promise to our fighting forces: No American will ever go into the field unless he or she has the best equipment available and as much of it as is needed. And when our troops come home, we are going to take good care of them. They are going to have the medical care they’ve earned…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Our military must have all the manpower and the tools it needs to fulfill any mission. I like to say that the United States military should be so strong that we will never have to use it.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“The day I was born I had already won the greatest lottery on Earth. I was born in the United States of America. With that came the amazing opportunities that every American citizen has: The right to become the best possible person you can be. The right to be treated equally with all other Americans.…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com