Top 17 James F. Amos Quotes
#1. All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
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#2. I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.
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#3. The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.
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#5. I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.
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#6. Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.
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#7. You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.
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#8. We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.
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#9. If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.
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#10. Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.
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#11. Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.
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#12. Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.
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#13. Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.
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#14. Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.
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#15. The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.
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#16. Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
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#17. We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.
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