I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country. Jim Webb Read Quote
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. Jim Webb Read Quote
It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat. Jim Webb Read Quote
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. Jim Webb Read Quote
I’m probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life. Jim Webb Read Quote
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. Jim Webb Read Quote
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. Jim Webb Read Quote
When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn’t know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm. Jim Webb Read Quote
