Words matter. These are the best John F. Kelly Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One day, you’ll get out of the Marine Corps; you’ll put your uniform up, but you’ll never not be a Marine.
Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we’ve been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan. But in a democracy, you salute.
My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.
The comforting news for every American is that our men and women in uniform, and every Marine, is as good today as any in our history.
If there’s a country, and it’s dangerous, and we deploy a U.S.military man or woman, if there’s only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is ‘boots on the ground.’
I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: ‘Secure the border.’
The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you’re a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth.
We are at war and, like it or not, that is a fact. It is not Bush’s war, and it is not Obama’s war. It is our war, and we can’t run away from it.
I’m not for the mass collection of data. I go the other way.
I don’t agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion.
If the Marines today are doing exactly the same thing their dads did in Vietnam and their granddads did in Korea and World War II, then how in the hell can we say that they’re not as good?
Years ago, people didn’t wear seatbelts. Now, most people wouldn’t get in a car without putting a seatbelt on.
To lose a child is – I can’t imagine anything worse than that.
I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.
If you want to get into the United States, the best way, I believe, is to ride the network. There is no convergence between, say, the criminal networks and the Islamic extremist networks.
I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.
If there’s a country, and it’s dangerous, and we deploy a U.S. military man or woman, if there’s only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is ‘boots on the ground.’ We do a disservice to the sacrifice of these people, particularly if they are killed, when we say there’s no boots on the ground.
If you were to build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, you would still have to back that wall up with patrolling by human beings, sensors, observation devices.
To join in the political fray, I don’t think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.
I grew up in Boston in a very, very, very Marine town. So back in my neighborhood in Boston, a working-class neighborhood, when you got your draft notice, you went down, and you took your draft physical. And then, if you passed it, you joined the Marine Corps.
The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.
I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can’t even come close. It is unimaginable.
We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is ‘no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.’ We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no – repeat, no – mass deportations.
