Richard Myers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.
-- Richard Myers

#War #Long #Enemy
It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.
-- Richard Myers

#Troops #Helpful #Kind
Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.
-- Richard Myers

#Iraq #Numbers #Wmd
When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? .. You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.
-- Richard Myers

#Country #Baghdad #Situation

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Richard Myers famous quotes

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