Quotes by John F. Kelly - Page 1

I'm pretty committed to the Constitution.
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Committed
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I'm not for the mass collection of data. I go the other way.
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Data
Mass
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To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.
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Imagine
Worse
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My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.
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Beer
First Time
Vietnam
Time First Time First
Overseas
Tons
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Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.
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Combat
Commonplace
Dying
Wounded
Marines
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I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion.
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Agree
Ethnicity
Registering
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I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.
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Cyber
Catastrophic
Easily
Event
Seriously
Suffer
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I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.
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Islamic
Tribes
Sunni
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We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.
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Gamble
American Lives
We Cannot
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I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'
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Secure
Work Man Me
Border
Donald
Donald Trump
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To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.
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Cnn
Talking
Becomes
Join
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There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.
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Immigration
Mass
Military Forces
Repeat
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One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.
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Marine
Marine Corps
One Day
Your Day Never
Corps
Uniform
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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.
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Comforting
Marine
Men And Women
Every American
Uniform
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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.
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Barriers
Men And Women
Secure
Work Men Women
Backed
Border
Work Women Men
Physical
Southwest
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Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.
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Crisis
Granted
Hemisphere
Security
Uncomfortable
Visible
Western
Nation
Confronted
Immediate
Tendency
Unless
Western Hemisphere
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My sincere advice to any citizen considering moving to the United States and crossing our boundaries in irregular migration, my best advice is to not do it.
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Advice
Boundaries
Considering
Migration
Moving
Sincere
Crossing
Citizen
Irregular
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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.
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Devices
Mexico
Observation
Pacific
Sensors
Gulf
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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.'
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Boots
Man Woman Never
Capital
Deploy
Ground
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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.
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Best Way
Convergence
Extremist
Islamic
Best Believe I Believe
Best Believe Way
Criminal
Network
Ride
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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?
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Vietnam
World War Ii
Dads
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Marines
Same Thing
World War
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My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.
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Be Kind
Organization
Position
Prefer
Full-Time
Offered
Veterans
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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.
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Afghanistan
Democracy
Iraq
Military
Salute
Vietnam
Since
Certainly
Conflicts
Liked
End Result
Result
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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.
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Friendship
Enemy
Marine
Marine Corps
Ready
Certainly
Friend
First
Corps
Saying
Second
Worse
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Given the opportunity to do another 9/11, our vicious enemy would do it today, tomorrow, and every day thereafter. I don't know why they hate us, and I frankly don't care, but they do hate us and are driven irrationally to our destruction.
John F. Kelly /
Destruction
Driven
Enemy
Tomorrow
Vicious
Frankly
Today Tomorrow Opportunity
Thereafter
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The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, have broken the mold and stepped out as men and women of character who are making their own way in life while protecting ours.
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Armed Forces
Broken
Character
Marine
Marine Corps
Men And Women
Mold
Particular
Young
Life Work Men
Life Work Women
Armed
General
Nation
Corps
Every Day
Forces
Making
Ours
Protecting
Serve
Stepped
While
Young People
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I've learned that, in many cases, people say, 'I want ground truth,' and they don't really mean it. There are warts all over this organization, as there are in many organizations, but you just have to tell truth to power and let the chips fall where they may.
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Cases
Chips
Organization
Warts
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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.
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Boston
Grew
Marine
Marine Corps
Neighborhood
Working Class
Corps
Draft
Joined
Notice
Passed
Physical
Took
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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.
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Daughter
Comfort
Convinced
Form
Imagine
Letters
Son
Unimaginable
Words
Close
Guess
Lose
Right Kind
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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.
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Truth
Decision
Defense
House
Makers
Office
One Thing
White House
Absolutely
General
Captain
Colonel
Working
Ground
Lieutenant
Second
Tell
The One Thing
Whether
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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. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.
John F. Kelly /
Dangerous
Decision
Flawed
House
Makers
Office
White House
Decisions
General
Captain
Colonel
Working
Ground
Lieutenant
Otherwise
Second
Whether
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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.
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Boots
Disservice
Military
Sacrifice
Capital
Deploy
Leave
Particularly
Man Country People
Ground
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We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.
John F. Kelly /
Airmen
America
Coast
Earth
Force
God Freedom Believe
Greatest
Away
Bestow
Lived
Nearly
Gift
Gave
Greatest Gift
Guarantee
Marines
Precious
Safeguard
Soldiers
Steal
While
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Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.
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Women
Adversity
Blink
Character
Danger
Eye
Men And Women
Night
Paid
Protected
Safe
Sleep
Men Women Character
Begin
Understand
Less
Nation
Deaths
Families
Women Men Character
Forward
Give
Ground
Price
Refusing
Sense
Service
Step
Step Forward
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