We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Interpretation
Supporting troops is necessary, but accountability and clear objectives should be established.
Edward Kennedy highlights the importance of supporting military personnel who are deployed not by their own decision but by government orders. However, he emphasizes that such support cannot be indefinite, and there should be a system in place for the administration to report back to the public about the situation and objectives of military involvement, ensuring accountability and transparency in governance.
In practice
In a public speech advocating for veteran benefits.
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race.
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Earn your leadership every day.
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
Good counselors lack no clients.
You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.
That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.