Marine Quotes - Page 18

• I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

  Jay Johnstone

  Baseball, Shoes, Rifles

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• The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

  Thomas Friedman

  Army, Technology, Air

  "A Manifesto for the Fast World". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 1999.

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• Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Thinking, Choices

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• I suppose the marine biology was a post-teen thing. I was kind of on my way but I was one of those teenage boys who got to 13, 14 and had no idea what I was going to do. I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

  Giles Deacon

  Teenage, Boys, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hillary Clinton lost because of who she is, because of her track record of failure, because there's no resume, there's no record of experience that she's good or qualified at anything. She cannot cite any achievements or accomplishments, other than traveling miles and being named after people she wasn't named after and being told to go join the dogs by somebody at the Marine Corps. She's exposed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dog, People, Track

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

  Leon Uris

  Book, Writing, Years

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• It would take one million men, one hundred years

  Keiji Shibazaki

  Men, Years, Hundred

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• I spent four years in the Marine Corp, and a big part of the Marine Corp, especially in boot camp, is torture. The military is not going to like me saying that, but that's what it is. Boot camp is one of the most torturous things I've ever been through.

  Travis Aaron Wade

  Military, Torture

  Source: collider.com

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• Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper

  Rob Halford

  Experts, Audio, Brilliant

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.

  Fred Krupp

  Ocean, Sea, Ecosystems

  Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp (2009). “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.

  Tim Winton

  Redneck, Knowing, Australia

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

  Sandra Postel

  Rain, Blue, Rivers

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• We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.

  Patty Murray

  War, Commitment, Winning

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• I went out to cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fundamentally [in Buzzing at the Sill] because I was interested in war as a notion and in experiencing it. I was interested in history and how societies form. I was interested in the recent history of what had provoked these wars. So when I finally got out there, I was really seeing the wars through the American perspective, much more than through being embedded with American soldiers and Marines.

  Peter van Agtmael

  War, Iraq, Perspective

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• I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Basketball, School, Player

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  Zell Miller

  America, Leader, Troops

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Saving, World

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• Dad mistook - for some reason unbeknownst to me - he mistook his family for a platoon of Marines. I mean, he - the exact same thing he brought to the disciplining of a squadron, a battalion, a platoon, he brought to the disciplining of his children. He ran the house - he had Saturday morning inspections for us, he had white-glove inspections for us as kids.

  Terry Gross

  Morning, Children, Dad

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• If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

  Holland Smith

  Beach, Battle, Fields

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• I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen, in part, that got me into the Marine Corps, because that was a ticket to Asia. So I spent a couple of years on Okinawa and began reading and thinking about how I wanted to go about conducting my life.

  Sam Hamill

  Couple, Teenage, Reading

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Commitment, Our Veterans

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• If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

  Brian McDermott

  Adversity, Achievement, Royal

  "Brian McDermott, the marine who became a world-beater with Leeds". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

  Margaret Thatcher

  News, Force, Rejoice

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Judgement, Royal, Aggression

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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