Top 35 Jim Webb Quotes

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If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day..

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day… what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?
Jim Webb
Your first six months in the Senate, you spend a lot of time wondering how the hell you got here. After that, you look around at your colleagues and wonder how the hell any of them got here.
Jim Webb
The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.
Jim Webb
I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America’s economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.
Jim Webb
I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don’t think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.
Jim Webb
The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday’s America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.
Jim Webb
Ronald Reagan came in – he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don’t like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.
Jim Webb
A typical day in the Senate requires several trips to the Senate floor and back, although the journey is usually underground so that on some days, once I arrive at work, I never see the sun.
Jim Webb
I’m probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
Jim Webb
It’s a very tough thing to run for office, but it’s also the way the American people get to know you.
Jim Webb
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
Jim Webb
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 Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.
Jim Webb
If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.
Jim Webb
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
Jim Webb
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.
Jim Webb
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 slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
Jim Webb
History shows that you can’t – you can’t have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It’s just the reality.
Jim Webb
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War’s harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.
Jim Webb
I’m a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man’s world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.
Jim Webb
Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word ‘American.’
Jim Webb
The frustration of the Senate is that it’s slow. It looks like an aquarium.
Jim Webb
The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, ‘This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.’
Jim Webb
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
Jim Webb
I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don’t like to waste emotions.
Jim Webb
I’m a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.
Jim Webb
When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn’t know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.
Jim Webb
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
Jim Webb
On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.
Jim Webb
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
Jim Webb
I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.
Jim Webb
I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.
Jim Webb
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sen

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me ‘the Tasmanian Devil’ when she was in her teens.
Jim Webb
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 is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
Jim Webb
I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
Jim Webb
There is nothing that’s been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.
Jim Webb