James Carafano quotes

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.
-- James Carafano

#Mafia #Needs #Billions

Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.
-- James Carafano

#Memorial Day #War #Struggle

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.
-- James Carafano

#Evil #Politics #Scandal

I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see a trade war between the United States and Mexico because it's in nobody's interest to see a trade war.
-- James Carafano

#War #Thinking #Interest

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet