Hugh Shelton Quotes

• Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

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• Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

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• Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

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• We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

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• Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it’s great that he’s coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.

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• Those are the things that, in the wrong hands – and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

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• They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don’t know.

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• There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I’m confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

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• The standards to get in are very high. We don’t want to lower those standards.

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• The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

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• Our people are working overtime – I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard – and that I’m confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.

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• Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I’d say that probably the airways are as safe as they’ve been in a good number of years.

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• My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

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• We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians

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• I’m not going to say whether I’m a Republican or a Democrat.

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• I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

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• I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.

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• I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it’s a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

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• I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

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• I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

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Hugh Shelton (27)

Birth:	2nd January, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Army Officer

About

General Henry Hugh Shelton was born in Tarboro, North Carolina, USA. He is a retired American army officer. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in textile engineering while earning his Army commission through ROTC training. Shelton's further education includes a Master of Science degree in political science from Auburn University at Montgomery in 1973 as well as studies at the Air Command and Staff College and the National War College. In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of General and the position of Commander in Chief of United States Special Operations Command. He married Carolyn L. Johnson in 1963 and have three sons together.

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