Top 1200 Commander-In-Chief Quotes & Sayings

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.

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

It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

Six months after I moved to L.A., I booked the ABC pilot 'Commander-in-Chief' with Geena Davis. I played her son.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

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

You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief.

We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.

I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

No commander in chief would ever say, "I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground."

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Puerto Rico's participation per capita in the armed forces is more than most states, yet they can't vote for their commander in chief.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.

I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

Donald Trump poses a serious threat to America, based on what he has said. He is unqualified to be president and he is unfit temperamentally to be commander-in-chief.

I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.

My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

If I'm president, I'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief.

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief.

I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it.