David Dixon Porter quotes

“A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.”
-- David Dixon Porter

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“If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.”
-- David Dixon Porter

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“I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.”

“Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.”

Source : "Adam Driver, boy among girls". Interview with Keely Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2012.

“Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.”

“Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.”

“Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.”

“Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.”

“I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.”

“You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.”

“Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.”

“Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.