Renee Montagne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think if you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate. You know, here's the thing.
-- Renee Montagne

#War #Thinking #World
All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.
-- Renee Montagne

#Jobs #Special #Lines
Donald Trump is great at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate and he'd be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe.
-- Renee Montagne

#Country #President #Needs
I think I should be on the main stage. I don't think I'm an undercard candidate. I think the others should drop out.
-- Renee Montagne

#Thinking #Should #Stage
The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third of women have made it through that infantry training. So you're not going to see a lot of women actually make it through this.
-- Renee Montagne

#Couple #Marine #Past
Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras, she was one of the world's best-known environmentalists and had recently opposed plans for a dam on a river considered sacred by the Lenca. Honduran police have said they are investigating the murder as a botched robbery, but many of her colleagues believe Caceres was targeted.
-- Renee Montagne

#Country #Believe #Home
I've been doing politics 30 years. I've never seen an election like this [in 2016]. This is entirely unpredictable.
-- Renee Montagne

#Years #Election #Unpredictable
There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.
-- Renee Montagne

#Chance #Lifetime #Conventions
The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.
-- Renee Montagne

#America #President #Immigration
Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that.
-- Renee Montagne

#Drug #World #Murder
Nevada appeared to be a firewall for Hillary Clinton.
-- Renee Montagne

#Clinton #Nevada
Jason Rezaian is finally headed home. He's the correspondent for The Washington Post who was held in Iran for a year and half while U.S. diplomats, his family and his editors worked to win his release. Rezaian was one of the four Americans released from prison in Tehran in a swap for seven Iranians held in U.S. prisons.
-- Renee Montagne

#Home #Winning #Iran
Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the test will increase over time for again both Marine Corps and the Army just to make sure everyone is physically fit enough to go through these jobs, to get through this training.
-- Renee Montagne

#Jobs #Army #Marine
Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.
-- Renee Montagne

#Team #Army #Marine
We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.
-- Renee Montagne

#Jobs #Moving #Marine
The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.
-- Renee Montagne

#Jobs #Military #Marine
There are no women in these ground combat jobs.Women, of course, have been flying combat missions in fighter jets, attack helicopters, for more than 20 years, but beginning this week, those ground combat jobs in infantry, artillery and armor will be open to women. Officials don't expect a rush of women interested.
-- Renee Montagne

#Jobs #Years #Flying
Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.
-- Renee Montagne

#Successful #America #Black
It's been a long while since we've had a major celebrity criminal case.
-- Renee Montagne

#Long #Criminals #Cases

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