Jim Webb
Jim Webb
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr.is an American politician and author. He has served as a United States Senator from Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Counsel for the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Marine Corps officer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
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I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
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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.
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The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.
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And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of us who have ever claimed the title of United States Marine
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The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom
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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.
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I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.
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I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.
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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.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.