Steven Blum Quotes (15 Quotes)

We can handle the overseas war-fight commitment and still defend our homeland and support the Department of Homeland Security simultaneously.

We cannot continue to accept risk by under-equipping the National Guard. Some critics will say we cannot afford it. The Guard's answer will be, we cannot afford not to do this.

I think he's a national treasure. You talk about the 'greatest generation' and you usually think of World War II. I'm not so sure you're not looking at the greatest generation in Jordan Pierson.

The fact that National Guard units were deployed to Iraq at the time of Katrina did not lessen the Guard's ability to respond.

We were going to fight an enemy that was a symmetric threat, and they looked a lot like us -- the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

Will we make 350,000 The answer is Absolutely.

What I'm watching in the last two years is absolutely unprecedented, unexpected and absolutely remarkable.

Fifty-four of the 54 National Guards sent troops to Mississippi and Louisiana post-Katrina. It was absolutely the largest and fastest military response to a domestic event in the history of this nation.

We should start seeing hurricanes as early as June. They don't always wait until the fall. So, we have to be ready.

And we're not fighting a threat-based force that we clearly understand.

About 75,000 citizen-soldiers and airmen this morning are deployed all around the world.

It has grown, unfortunately, because the need has grown. We cannot give up on our American youth.

The National Guard that I joined was strategic reserve -- deliberately under-resourced, deliberately undermanned and deliberately under-equipped. That was part of our national military strategy.

You don't have to be in Afghanistan or Iraq a long time to understand the challenges of the missions. The National Guard brings the face of all America to the theater.

What we're most proud of is are the young men and women that are sitting at these tables ... that are proof positive that this program is the most effective program in the nation when it comes to saving the next greatest generation. We will stay behind you all the way. You have a life partner for anything you want to do for the rest of your life with the National Guard.