Jim Webb Quotes

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• And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of…
• I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
• Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and…
• The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of…
• I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in…
• I have strong reasons for being a Democrat. Basically if you want true fairness in society, you want to give a voice in the corridors…
• World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
• I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there…
• I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.
• I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
• If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.
• When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political…
• Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.
• Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in…
• It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported…
• The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies…
• The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968…
• Man is more naturally violent than woman. Four times as many men are involved in homicides as women. You might not pick this up in…
• I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.
• From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus…

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