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Mark Milley
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“If you can't get in shape in 24 months, then maybe you should hit the road.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Army Chief: Pass New Combat Fitness Test or 'Hit the Road', Military.com, 8 October 2018
“We don't want to lose thousands of soldiers to [the ACFT]. This fitness test is hard. No one should be under any illusions about it, but we really don't want to lose soldiers on the battlefield. We don't want young men and women to get killed in action because they weren't fit.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Army Chief: Pass New Combat Fitness Test or 'Hit the Road', Military.com, 8 October 2018
“Combat is not for the faint of heart, it's not for the weak-kneed, it's not for those who are not psychologically resilient and tough and hardened to the brutality, to the viciousness of it. We've got to get this Army hard, and we've got to get it hard fast.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Army Chief: Pass New Combat Fitness Test or 'Hit the Road', Military.com, 8 October 2018
“As senior leaders, everything you do will be closely watched, and I am not immune. As many of you saw, the result of the photograph of me at Lafayette Square last week, that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society. I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. As a commissioned uniformed officer, it was a mistake that I've learned from, and I sincerely hope we all can learn from it. Embrace the Constitution, keep it close to your heart. It is our North Star.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Peril (2021), New York: Simon & Schuster, p. 106-107
“George Floyd's death amplified the pain, the frustration and the fear that so many of our fellow Americans live with day in and day out. I have many policemen in my family, and I am personally outraged by George Floyd's brutal and senseless killing. The protests that have ensued not only speak to this injustice, but also to centuries of injustice towards Black Americans. We, as a nation and as a military, are still struggling with racism, and we have much work to do.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Jim Garamone, No Place for Racism, Discrimination in U.S. Military, Milley Says, DOD News, 9 July 2020
“We who wear the cloth of our nation understand that cohesion is a force multiplier. Divisiveness leads to defeat. As one of our famous presidents said, 'a house divided does not stand.'”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Jim Garamone, No Place for Racism, Discrimination in U.S. Military, Milley Says, DOD News, 9 July 2020
“Equality and opportunity are matters of military readiness, not just political correctness.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Jim Garamone, No Place for Racism, Discrimination in U.S. Military, Milley Says, DOD News, 9 July 2020
“Since the protests began, I sought information to help me assess the ability of federal, state and local authorities to handle situations under their responsibility. I continually assessed and advised that it was not necessary to employ active duty troops in response to the civil unrest occurring in our nation. It was my view then, and it remains so now, that local, state and federal police backed up by the National Guard under governor control, could, and continually can, effectively handle the security situation in every case across the country.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Jim Garamone, No Place for Racism, Discrimination in U.S. Military, Milley Says, Defense.gov, 9 July 2020
“We have challenges to be sure, but the military has been and remains the largest meritocracy in the world. We promote, we advance and we select based on your knowledge, your skills, your attributes and the content of your character. We are stronger together. Diversity builds a better team and readiness.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark at a virtual global Department of Defense town hall on 24 September 2020, as quoted by David Vergun, DoD leaders discuss diversity, inclusion with military members, families, Army.mil, 24 September 2020
“The 6th of January was one of the days of high risk. Neither I, nor anyone that I know of, to include the FBI or anybody else, envisioned the thousands of people who assaulted the capitol. To basically encircle the Capitol and assault it from multiple directions simultaneously, and to do what they did, that was something else. The 6th was pretty dramatic. That's about as dramatic as you're going to see it, short of a civil war... What you might have seen was a precursor to something far worse down the road.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Excerpt from remarks to senior staff following the 6 January 2021 assault on the United States Capitol by supporters of then-U.S. President Donald Trump, as quoted by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Peril (2021), New Yor…
“Opportunity in our military must be reflective of the diverse talent in order for us to remain strong. Our nation is ready to fulfill the promise of our Constitution to build a more perfect union and to ensure equal justice for all people, and it is your generation that can and will bring the joint force to be truly inclusive of all people.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a May 2021 address at a joint U.S. Army ROTC and U.S. Air Force ROTC commissioning ceremony at Howard University, as quoted in Joint Chiefs chairman urges greater racial diversity in the military, MilitaryTimes.com…
“[You] have become a team. And you're going to be drawing upon each other for the rest of your lives.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are what makes the United States undaunted by the difficult, and motivated by the impossible.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are facing, right now, two global powers: China and Russia, each with significant military capabilities, and both fully intend to change the current rules-based order.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[And in Ukraine, we are learning the lesson that] aggression left unanswered only emboldens the aggressor. Let us never forget the massacre that we have just witnessed in Bucha. Know the slaughter that occurred in Mariupol. And the best way to honor their sacrifice is to support their fight for freedom and to stand against tyranny.”
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“The nature of war is not going to change. It's still a political act. It's a decision by humans to impose their political will on their opponent by the use of violence.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're entering a different world. The United States is under significant challenges in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. We see revanchist Russia, as we have just witnessed another invasion in Ukraine. In Asia, we are in the third decade of the largest global economic shift in 500 years, resulting in a rapidly rising China as a great power with a revisionist foreign policy backed up with an increasingly capable military.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You'll be fighting with robotic tanks, ships and airplanes. We've witnessed a revolution in lethality and precision munitions. What was once the exclusive province of the U.S. military is now available to most nation states with the money and will to acquire them.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And finally, there is the mother of all technologies — artificial intelligence — where machines are actually developing the capacity to learn and to reason. These rapidly converging developments in time and space are resulting in that profound change — the most profound change ever in human history. And whatever overmatch we, the United States, enjoy militarily … the United States is challenged in every domain of warfare: space, cyber, maritime, air and land.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In your world, you're going to have to optimize yourselves for urban combat, not rural combat. That has huge implications for intelligence collection, vehicles, weapons design, development, logistics, camo and all of the other aspects of our progression.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Globally, there's an increase in nationalism and authoritarian governments, regional arms races and unresolved territorial claims, ethnic and sectarian disputes and an attempt by some countries to return to an 18th-century concept of balance of power politics with spheres of influence.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As you march into your future, have the vision to change and to prevent war from happening in the first place. By maintaining peace through the strength of the U.S. military, and the example of our values, it is up to you, today.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are proud of you. You have a difficult and dangerous road ahead, and no one should underestimate it. But you also have the opportunity to navigate those dangerous roads ahead and to lead our nation's most precious resource: the young men and women who don the cloth of this nation, the American soldier.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Milley: Look, I'm a soldier. I've been faithful and loyal to the Constitution of the United States for 44-and-a-half years. And my family and I have sacrificed greatly for this country, and my mother and father before them. And, you know, as much as these comments are directed at me, it's also directed at the institution of the military. There's 2.1 million of us in uniform. And the American people can take it to the bank that all of us, every single one of us from private to general, we're loyal to that Constitution and we'll never turn our back on it, no matter what the threats, no matter what the humiliation, no matter what. If we're willing to die for that document, if we're willing to deploy to combat, if we're willing to lose an arm, a leg, an eye, to protect and support and defend that document and protect the American people, then we're willing to live for it, too. So, I'm not going to comment directly on those things, but I can tell you that this military, this soldier, me- we'll never turn our back on that Constitution. Milley: But for the record, was there anything inappropriate or treasonous about the calls you made to China? Milley: Absolutely not. Zero. None. O'Donnell: It almost seems odd to ask this question. Because the former commander-in-chief seems to be calling for your execution. Are you worried about your safety? Milley: I've got adequate safety protection. I wish those comments had not been made, but they were, and we'll take appropriate measures to ensure my safety and the safety of my family.”
Mark Milley (born 1958) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Excerpt from Norah O'Donnell's interview of Milley on 27 September 2023 on the CBS television program 60 Minutes, addressing a post by Donald Trump on Truth Social on 22 September 2023, implying that Milley had committe…