Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.
I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.
When I was 18, I went into the army as a payroll clerk because otherwise I was headed for Korea.
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.
A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.
He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.
The army of Truth is the real Invincible Armada. Truths are always destined to be victorious.
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.
It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house
'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.
I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.
I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.
I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
I remember turning onto the street. I saw barricades and police officers and, just, people everywhere. When I saw all of that, I immediately thought that it was Mardi Gras. I had no idea that they were here to keep me out of the school.
I did not even know what athletics was; the Army taught me everything.
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
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.
As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
I want to make the Tartan Army happy and qualify for a major tournament. That's the goal.
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
Let me be clear: Those who seek to undermine our democratic institutions, indiscriminately destroy our businesses and attack our law enforcement officers and fellow citizens are a threat to the homeland.
We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.
From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it's given me a real love of history.
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you
Israel is an independent country with a large army, and it has the ability to do what it thinks is right.
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
The United States Army is really messing with my plan to get pregnant.
Law enforcement in the state of Arizona supports Senate Bill 1070. We have many organizations and groups of the officers on the ground that understand the problem, need another tool in order to address the problem and support it wholeheartedly.
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
Working for the screen is almost like being in the Army: you set your mind to it, and you do it.
Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.
Think about your immune system as being an army, and it's fighting infection.
When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.
We, the American people, owe the nation's police officers our deepest gratitude, our best efforts, and our strong support, for they have done so much for us against such great odds.
The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.
Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.
In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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