There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a sense that the military are different than I. Because there was such a divide between the military world - and there still is, because there's no draft - and the civilian world is one of the rotten harvests of the Vietnam War, was this sort of bifurcation of America in that way.
It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.
After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.
The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.
Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.
The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.
I think civilian Americans support the military very much.
There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country.
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
Let the soldier yield to the civilian.
The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. . . . They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.