Bryan Hilferty Quotes (15 Quotes)

We try to rehabilitate most people, but if you have set fire to Chicago, we probably won't attempt to rehabilitate you.

We accept blame, ... We offer our condolences to the village, but I will tell you the surveillance video shows no children there. But we're not trying to avoid blame in this.

We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.

I think it's just common sense, ... These are people with a propensity for service who previously served honorably and who are trained. If they want to serve, why shouldn't we offer them that opportunity And why should we put up barriers

The Army is America. We are America's sons and daughters. America's sons and daughters are getting tattoos. That means that American soldiers are getting tattoos.

The biggest thing is we want to express our condolences no matter what happened,

I wouldnt brag too much about this one because its so small, but its still seven straight months.

American youth tend to have tattoos now. The demographic is changing. If a kid is in good shape and passes all the tests, do Americans really want us to say no to him because he's got tattoos I don't think so.

It's sensitive because we understand they're different soldiers.

I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.

We have met the active Army's monthly recruiting goals since June, and we expect to meet it for September, which sends us into fiscal year 2006 on a winning streak,

We're going to operate simultaneously throughout the entire eastern and southern part of the country so we get inside the decision cycle so we hit them before they can hit innocent men, women and children,

Every army in the history of the world has always had some deserters, usually much greater than we have today, because once again every soldier who's joined the Army since 1973 is a volunteer, and the numbers are very small and they are almost completely for -- people desert almost completely for personal or financial reasons.

Not everyone is qualified to join this team. To enlist you have to both meet our high standards and be motivated to serve your country motivation or qualification alone is not enough.

Not taking jailbirds has been our policy for decades.