I am fully prepared to be commander in chief, ... I don't need on-the-job training.

He has not done so, and that, I agree, is a terrible derogation of his responsibilities as commander in chief,

[Opponents had dubbed her] Mean Jean ... their commander in chief.

He's going to run on the idea that he's the commander-in-chief, that it's about his patriotism, that he kept us safe after 9/11, ... The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one

The president is, after all, the commander in chief - not only in terms of international crises, but in terms of catastrophes here at home.