American Quotes

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

There's not really a ban on the KIA bracelet specifically. There are regulations for wearing the uniform and specifically jewelry, and Marines are not allowed to wear bracelets. This falls under that spectrum. Now, the KIA bracelet will be lumped into the same category as the POW/MIA bracelets, whic

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.

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

If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'