Commander Quotes

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.