Quotes on the topic: Marines


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All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.


The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.


I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high.


To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.


Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.


Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.


Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.


I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop.


As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.


I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.


From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.


The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.


I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.


In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.


Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.


Get off your butt and join the Marines!


I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.


The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.


I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.


I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!