I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

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

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.

Leave no Marine behind.

To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.

I love submarine movies.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.