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 learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
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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?
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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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I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard for me to think about this, but I first went to Southeast Asia as a Marine more than 40 years ago, as a young Marine. I was on Okinawa and then in Vietnam. I've returned in many different hats, which I think has helped me to form my own views about policy out there. I've spent a good bit of time in this region as a journalist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.