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I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps. -- Josh Mandel
Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings. -- Adam Driver
The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class. -- Adam Driver
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. -- Ralph Peters
Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. -- James F. Amos
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it. -- Sargent Shriver
My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills. -- Frederick W. Smith
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years. -- Lee Trevino
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. -- Sam Farr
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. -- James F. Amos
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. -- Mike Rounds
As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted. -- Manfred von Richthofen
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps. -- Allen West
Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team. -- Adam Driver
I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. -- Smedley Butler
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing. -- Paul Theroux
I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad. -- Kenny Marchant
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything. -- Caroline Kennedy
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps. -- R. Lee Ermey
I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945. -- Bobby Thomson
In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose. -- Adam Driver
Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers. -- Mike Todd
The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps. -- Alexander Vandegrift
I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps. -- William Baldwin
The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain. -- Philip Caputo
My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. -- Billy Carter
The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man. -- Ed Bearss
It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps. -- Edward Kennedy
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home. -- Phil Klay
We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers. -- Cecile Richards
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. -- Kelly Miller
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. -- Paul Theroux
Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps? -- Dennis Prager
I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps. -- Jonathan Winters
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. -- James Forrestal
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. -- Ronald Reagan
In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans. -- Solomon Ortiz
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength. -- John M. McHugh
Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps. -- James F. Amos
Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore. -- James F. Amos
I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had. -- Art Buchwald
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life. -- Jim Webb
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My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life. -- Peter Cullen
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing. -- Karl Marlantes
I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii. -- Louis Zamperini
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. -- Leon Uris
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006. -- Solomon Ortiz
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish -- Leon Uris
Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State. -- John Culberson
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. -- Michael Herr
Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State -- John Culberson
I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps. -- Frederick W. Smith
Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. -- James L. Jones
Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever. -- Phil Hartman
I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo. -- Gorilla Zoe
I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. -- Robert Gossett
The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation. -- George Brett
The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself. -- Gregory Alan Williams
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. -- Sargent Shriver
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles. -- Charles C. Krulak
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. -- Meg Rosoff
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. -- Leon Uris
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant. -- Susana Martinez
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer. -- Chirlane McCray
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. -- Erich Segal
I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. -- Sargent Shriver
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps." -- Joshua R. Sands
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps... -- Harry S. Truman
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems. -- Sargent Shriver
Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower. -- Keith B. McCutcheon
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. -- Sargent Shriver
In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough. -- Richard K. Morgan
I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country. -- Scott Ritter
There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps. -- Phil Klay
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion." -- Ron Kind
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion. -- Ron Kind
Dear Humanity; we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet! -- Avery Johnson
We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner. -- Renee Montagne
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps. -- Camryn Manheim
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess! -- Queen Noor of Jordan
Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him. -- Ilona Andrews
The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team. -- Keith B. McCutcheon
Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment. -- Jim DeMint
I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade. -- Joseph Bruchac
The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world. -- William Halsey
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. -- Helen Thomas
I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps. -- Michael Bennet
We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23. -- Donald Trump
The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve. -- Solomon Ortiz
General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience. -- James Mattis
I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee. -- Mike Coffman
Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very hard. I wouldn't change that for anything. -- Raymond Burr
The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air. -- John S. McCain, Jr.
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had. -- Fred Larson
You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both. -- Adam Driver
Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant. -- Barack Obama
I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there. -- Ed McMahon
I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps. -- Duane G. Carey
I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me. -- Leon Askin
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone. -- Paul Theroux
Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives. -- Bob Woodward
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi. -- Ron Kind
I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado. -- Mojo Nixon
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things. -- Paul Theroux
Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps. -- Adam Driver
I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop. -- Phil Klay
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' -- Jesse Ventura
I've been using easy-to-understand DC Comics-surrogates to describe him: imagine if Darkseid's son, Orion, joined the Green Lantern Corps to train them to stop Darkseid. That's essentially what Victory is doing in the Galactic Rangers. -- Sterling Gates
Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority -- John Culberson
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do. -- Adam Driver
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. -- William Manchester
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. -- Michael Oxley

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