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I phoned the military commander and the chief of police to tell them to replace those who can't resolve forest and land fires, never underestimate hot spots. Immediately put out a small fire, don't wait until it gets bigger. – President Widodo	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Commander-in-Chief released these criminals after only months in prison, while the journalists who told the world about the killings in Inn Din were jailed for more than 500 days. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Aldrin in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. For the 50th anniversary of the landing, Omega issued a limited edition Speedmaster watch, a tribute to the one that Buzz Aldrin wore to the moon. ( Neil Armstrong/NASA via AP) I prefaced desolate with magnificent, because of humanitys reaching outward and accomplishing something that people thought was impossible, Buzz Aldrin said. They dreamed of somehow reaching the moon. And to demonstrate, to be a part of demonstrating this miracle was magnificent. On July 16, 1969, Buzz Aldrin, along with mission commander Neil Armstrong and command module pilot Michael Collins, launched from Kennedy Space Center atop a Saturn V rocket. Four days later, Neil Armstrong made history when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. Aldrinexited thelunar module 19 minutes after Neil Armstrong. The famed astronaut joked about being second during his interview. APOLLO 11 INSIDERS REMEMBER HISTORYS MOST FAMOUS SPACE MISSION : WE HAD A JOB TO DO AND WE DID IT I will forever, no matter what I do, be known as the second man on the moon, he quipped. In this July 20, 1969 photo made available by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. ( Neil Armstrong/NASA via AP) Why does it bother you to be a second man to walk on the moon ? Youre one of a dozen men who had that incredible role, Cavuto asked in a follow-up question. Well, people love being vice president, dont they ? No, Buzz Aldrin responded with a chuckle. APOLLO 11S EPIC MISSION TO THE MOON IN PICTURES Does it bother me ? Yeah, it does a little bit, Buzz Aldrin continued. Why ? Because that isnt the way I would have described what this country did with two human beings landing on the moon and then deciding who was going to go out. We did things together as a team. The famous astronaut also recalls his famous steps across the surface of the moon and how he was well aware that the world was watching. Right near the end of our period out there Buzz Aldrin was doing something with the rock boxes -- I knew where the TV camera was, and I jumped up and down and pranced around to demonstrate the mobility that a person has, he said. So I was demonstrating for the people watching on TVintentionally showing them the varieties of kangaroo hop of turning. APOLLO 11 INSIDERS REMEMBER HISTORYS MOST FAMOUS SPACE MISSION : WE HAD A JOB TO DO AND WE DID IT During his sit-down with Cavuto, Buzz Aldrin also recollected the experience of looking back at Earth while on the surface of the Moon. [ You ] look up there, theres the earth. It looks small when its up there. If you look close, you may be able to see the ice over a pole, he said. If you look at your Omega watch, you may be able to tell what time it is in Houston. Buzz Aldrin also talked about the political significance of their mission to the moon, coming as it did duringthe space race with Russia atthe height of the Cold War. APOLLO 11 : THE BOOK THAT LANDED MAN ON THE MOON COULD SELL FOR $ 9 MILLION I do a lot of thinking today -- about somebody who had -- the guts to see that we were being outshone -- outshined in the Cold War by the Soviet Union, and to say, What can we do ? – Buzz Aldrin	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Is that what you will tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan ? ' Well, we just have to be engaged.' As a soldier I will tell you that answer is unacceptable. We have to bring our troops home from Afghanistan. We are in a place in Afghanistan where we have lost so many lives, we are no better off in Afghanistan today than we were when this war began. This is why it's so important to have This President, a commander in chief who knows the cost of war and is ready to do the job on day one. – Tulsi Gabbard	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander in chief. – Kamala Harris	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander in chief ! – Kamala Harris	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
He appeared as a commander of hardened mujahideen, of an insurgency group, not the pampered leader of a well-off caliphate, his appearance totally mobilized Islamic State's supporters all over the world. – Rita Katz	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think he's sending a message, soldiers do what the leadership tells them, or signals to them, is most important to them. And I think its clear in this case you have the President, who also functions as the commander-in-chief, sending a message that he disagrees with decades, even centuries of legal precedent in the law of war. – Waitman Wade Beorn	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He left his troops alone, he fled the first thing in the morning, he is still in hiding, and the last time he spoke with me he said, 'My commander in chief, I recognize your presidency'. – President Nicolas Maduro against congress	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I started the campaign knowing that I would have to work extra hard to make women and men feel comfortable with the idea of a woman president, it doesn't fit into the -- the stereotypes we all carry around in our head. And a lot of the sexism and the misogyny was in service of these attitudes. Like, you know,' We really don't want a woman commander in chief.'. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I, as president, and at the same time as commander of the country's armed forces, will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico. – Lopez Obrador	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There was a time in which the main violator of human rights was the state. It was the violator par excellence of human rights. That's over, i, as president, and at the same time as commander of the country's armed forces, will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico. – Lopez Obrador	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am comfortable with the commander in chief having the sole authority to decide who has clearance and who doesn't. – Jim Jordan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I agree that the military has utterly failed at handling sexual assault through the Uniform Code of Military Justice process and I will push for meaningful reforms, as a former commander of an assault helicopter company, I want to know what else can be done beyond successful prosecutions that bring perpetrators to justice to make the lives of survivors better and ensure they have what they need to heal and be able to resume the careers they dreamt about from the time they entered the military. – Tammy Duckworth	Found on CNN 5 years ago
General Leszek Suski( Polish fire brigades chief commander) has issued a decision that from tomorrow all escape rooms, game centers and clubs will undergo fire safety inspections with special attention paid to evacuation plans, escape routes in these type of locations, there should be a moderator in each location able to unlock the rooms and let people out. We will check this and it will be strictly controlled. – Tomasz Kubiak	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If we have someone who is as selfless and as committed as James Mattis ', resigns James Mattis ' position walking away from all the responsibility James Mattis ' feels for every service member in our forces, and James Mattis ' does so in a public way like that, we ought to stop and say, okay, why did he do it ? we ought to ask what kind of commander in chief he had that James Mattis ', that the good Marine, felt James Mattis ' had to walk away. – Stan McChrystal	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Now, there's all sorts of stuff in the news, and that sort of thing. You just concentrate on what your company commander, your battalion commander tells you. Because if you read all that stuff, you know, you'll go nuts, you know what your mission is here. You've had to deploy on short notice to a nontraditional location and do your jobs. So you focus on doing that. – Defense Secretary James Mattis	Found on CNN 6 years ago
To me, it's a recognition that when a country has men and women at war who are dying -- like we do have people dying, still, in Afghanistan -- and not recognize that by going and by looking and asking questions and being part of that personally, rather than just getting reports in the morning or in the afternoon, that's a misstep, but I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong. – Chuck Hagel	Found on CNN 6 years ago
But I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong. – Chuck Hagel	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The president is ‘the government’ when it comes to making security clearance determinations, as the granting, denial, or revocation of a security clearance falls squarely within the president’s commander-in-chief powers per [a Supreme Court ruling]. – Sean Bigley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The reunifications should continue in accordance with Commander White plan and the idea that Commander White plan would slow down or stop for other logistical reason due to a stay of trying to deport families immediately upon reunification, that's not an option, that just shouldn't be happening. There's no reason that I can think of where that can result in unhinging the reunifications underway. ... If space is an issue, the government will have to make space. – Dana Sabraw	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The norm would usually see an aircraft suffering from depressurization landing at the nearest suitable airport – not least to calm down the passengers, who would be severely frightened, however, if there were nothing structurally wrong with the aircraft, the commander could elect to continue to a more distant airport. – David Newbery	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
As the commander of this organization, I take all threats seriously, and I assess all threats, and right now, you know, yes, green on blue could be a threat, but we have not had a single incident. – Scott Jackson	Found on CNN 6 years ago
This is an unusual commander in chief, this is a very unique set of circumstances and it requires a unique set of extraordinary efforts. – Lujan Grisham	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

I phoned the military commander and the chief of police to tell them to replace those who can't resolve forest and land fires, never underestimate hot spots. Immediately put out a small fire, don't wait until it gets bigger.

– President Widodo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Commander-in-Chief released these criminals after only months in prison, while the journalists who told the world about the killings in Inn Din were jailed for more than 500 days.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Aldrin in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. For the 50th anniversary of the landing, Omega issued a limited edition Speedmaster watch, a tribute to the one that Buzz Aldrin wore to the moon. ( Neil Armstrong/NASA via AP) I prefaced desolate with magnificent, because of humanitys reaching outward and accomplishing something that people thought was impossible, Buzz Aldrin said. They dreamed of somehow reaching the moon. And to demonstrate, to be a part of demonstrating this miracle was magnificent. On July 16, 1969, Buzz Aldrin, along with mission commander Neil Armstrong and command module pilot Michael Collins, launched from Kennedy Space Center atop a Saturn V rocket. Four days later, Neil Armstrong made history when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. Aldrinexited thelunar module 19 minutes after Neil Armstrong. The famed astronaut joked about being second during his interview. APOLLO 11 INSIDERS REMEMBER HISTORYS MOST FAMOUS SPACE MISSION : WE HAD A JOB TO DO AND WE DID IT I will forever, no matter what I do, be known as the second man on the moon, he quipped. In this July 20, 1969 photo made available by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. ( Neil Armstrong/NASA via AP) Why does it bother you to be a second man to walk on the moon ? Youre one of a dozen men who had that incredible role, Cavuto asked in a follow-up question. Well, people love being vice president, dont they ? No, Buzz Aldrin responded with a chuckle. APOLLO 11S EPIC MISSION TO THE MOON IN PICTURES Does it bother me ? Yeah, it does a little bit, Buzz Aldrin continued. Why ? Because that isnt the way I would have described what this country did with two human beings landing on the moon and then deciding who was going to go out. We did things together as a team. The famous astronaut also recalls his famous steps across the surface of the moon and how he was well aware that the world was watching. Right near the end of our period out there Buzz Aldrin was doing something with the rock boxes -- I knew where the TV camera was, and I jumped up and down and pranced around to demonstrate the mobility that a person has, he said. So I was demonstrating for the people watching on TVintentionally showing them the varieties of kangaroo hop of turning. APOLLO 11 INSIDERS REMEMBER HISTORYS MOST FAMOUS SPACE MISSION : WE HAD A JOB TO DO AND WE DID IT During his sit-down with Cavuto, Buzz Aldrin also recollected the experience of looking back at Earth while on the surface of the Moon. [ You ] look up there, theres the earth. It looks small when its up there. If you look close, you may be able to see the ice over a pole, he said. If you look at your Omega watch, you may be able to tell what time it is in Houston. Buzz Aldrin also talked about the political significance of their mission to the moon, coming as it did duringthe space race with Russia atthe height of the Cold War. APOLLO 11 : THE BOOK THAT LANDED MAN ON THE MOON COULD SELL FOR $ 9 MILLION I do a lot of thinking today -- about somebody who had -- the guts to see that we were being outshone -- outshined in the Cold War by the Soviet Union, and to say, What can we do ?

– Buzz Aldrin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Is that what you will tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan ? ' Well, we just have to be engaged.' As a soldier I will tell you that answer is unacceptable. We have to bring our troops home from Afghanistan. We are in a place in Afghanistan where we have lost so many lives, we are no better off in Afghanistan today than we were when this war began. This is why it's so important to have This President, a commander in chief who knows the cost of war and is ready to do the job on day one.

– Tulsi Gabbard

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander in chief.

– Kamala Harris

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander in chief !

– Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He appeared as a commander of hardened mujahideen, of an insurgency group, not the pampered leader of a well-off caliphate, his appearance totally mobilized Islamic State's supporters all over the world.

– Rita Katz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think he's sending a message, soldiers do what the leadership tells them, or signals to them, is most important to them. And I think its clear in this case you have the President, who also functions as the commander-in-chief, sending a message that he disagrees with decades, even centuries of legal precedent in the law of war.

– Waitman Wade Beorn

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He left his troops alone, he fled the first thing in the morning, he is still in hiding, and the last time he spoke with me he said, 'My commander in chief, I recognize your presidency'.

– President Nicolas Maduro against congress

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I started the campaign knowing that I would have to work extra hard to make women and men feel comfortable with the idea of a woman president, it doesn't fit into the -- the stereotypes we all carry around in our head. And a lot of the sexism and the misogyny was in service of these attitudes. Like, you know,' We really don't want a woman commander in chief.'.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I, as president, and at the same time as commander of the country's armed forces, will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico.

– Lopez Obrador

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was a time in which the main violator of human rights was the state. It was the violator par excellence of human rights. That's over, i, as president, and at the same time as commander of the country's armed forces, will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico.

– Lopez Obrador

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I am comfortable with the commander in chief having the sole authority to decide who has clearance and who doesn't.

– Jim Jordan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I agree that the military has utterly failed at handling sexual assault through the Uniform Code of Military Justice process and I will push for meaningful reforms, as a former commander of an assault helicopter company, I want to know what else can be done beyond successful prosecutions that bring perpetrators to justice to make the lives of survivors better and ensure they have what they need to heal and be able to resume the careers they dreamt about from the time they entered the military.

– Tammy Duckworth

Found on CNN
5 years ago

General Leszek Suski( Polish fire brigades chief commander) has issued a decision that from tomorrow all escape rooms, game centers and clubs will undergo fire safety inspections with special attention paid to evacuation plans, escape routes in these type of locations, there should be a moderator in each location able to unlock the rooms and let people out. We will check this and it will be strictly controlled.

– Tomasz Kubiak

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If we have someone who is as selfless and as committed as James Mattis ', resigns James Mattis ' position walking away from all the responsibility James Mattis ' feels for every service member in our forces, and James Mattis ' does so in a public way like that, we ought to stop and say, okay, why did he do it ? we ought to ask what kind of commander in chief he had that James Mattis ', that the good Marine, felt James Mattis ' had to walk away.

– Stan McChrystal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Now, there's all sorts of stuff in the news, and that sort of thing. You just concentrate on what your company commander, your battalion commander tells you. Because if you read all that stuff, you know, you'll go nuts, you know what your mission is here. You've had to deploy on short notice to a nontraditional location and do your jobs. So you focus on doing that.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

To me, it's a recognition that when a country has men and women at war who are dying -- like we do have people dying, still, in Afghanistan -- and not recognize that by going and by looking and asking questions and being part of that personally, rather than just getting reports in the morning or in the afternoon, that's a misstep, but I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong.

– Chuck Hagel

Found on CNN
6 years ago

But I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong.

– Chuck Hagel

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The president is ‘the government’ when it comes to making security clearance determinations, as the granting, denial, or revocation of a security clearance falls squarely within the president’s commander-in-chief powers per [a Supreme Court ruling].

– Sean Bigley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The reunifications should continue in accordance with Commander White plan and the idea that Commander White plan would slow down or stop for other logistical reason due to a stay of trying to deport families immediately upon reunification, that's not an option, that just shouldn't be happening. There's no reason that I can think of where that can result in unhinging the reunifications underway. ... If space is an issue, the government will have to make space.

– Dana Sabraw

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The norm would usually see an aircraft suffering from depressurization landing at the nearest suitable airport – not least to calm down the passengers, who would be severely frightened, however, if there were nothing structurally wrong with the aircraft, the commander could elect to continue to a more distant airport.

– David Newbery

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

As the commander of this organization, I take all threats seriously, and I assess all threats, and right now, you know, yes, green on blue could be a threat, but we have not had a single incident.

– Scott Jackson

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This is an unusual commander in chief, this is a very unique set of circumstances and it requires a unique set of extraordinary efforts.

– Lujan Grisham

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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