I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals. ' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.
We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.
President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!
I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.
The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions to put on the new man is the most difficult struggle of all. We must never weary of this combat, but fight the holy fight fervently and perseveringly.
A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.
[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
Always turn and face the attack.
I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first. . . If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
Our job is to provide coalition the military equipment that they need; the air support they need; special forces when appropriate. But at the end of the day for a dozen different reasons, not the least of which is that ISIS would like American combat troops on the ground so they could reach out to the Muslim world and say, "Look, we're taking on those terrible Americans. "
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.
Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.