I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War’s harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. Jim Webb Read Quote
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.’ Jim Webb Read Quote
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? Jim Webb Read Quote
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. Jim Webb Read Quote
Ronald Reagan came in – he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don’t like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again. Jim Webb Read Quote
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War. Jim Webb Read Quote
I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid. Jim Webb Read Quote
I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America’s involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort. Jim Webb Read Quote
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. Jim Webb Read Quote
When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities. Jim Webb Read Quote
