Quotes About Coast Guard

#1. Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks.

Jimmy Fallon

#2. First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.

Vito Fossella

#3. I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

Howard Coble

#4. Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

Kit Bond

#6. We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

Michael Chertoff

#7. Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Barry McCaffrey

#8. The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

Howard Coble

#9. Thought you didn't believe in God," I said to Savannah as we moved slowly past the Coast Guard base at the end of the Charleston peninsula. "I don't," Savannah answered, "but I believe in Luke and he believes in God and I always believe in God when I truly need him." "Situational faith," I said.

Pat Conroy

#10. The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.

Russ Carnahan

#11. Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

David McCord

#12. Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

Solomon Ortiz

#13. Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.

Robin Hayes

#14. The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#15. The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

Russ Carnahan

#16. The most worst scenario.... I mean if this happen to me and to be so deep in the sea and sailing oh hell... let's go be with me...

(The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

Book by Tougias, Michael J., Sherman, Casey)

Deyth Banger

#17. From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

Russ Carnahan

#18. I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.

Wallace M. Greene

#19. These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Steve Finley

#20. I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

Dave Reichert

#21. We were small and thought we knew nothing Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops, Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves So infinitesimally scaled We could stream through the eye of a needle.

Seamus Heaney

#22. Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

Natasha Trethewey

#23. If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.

Muriel Barbery

#24. Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Jackson Browne

#25. We do this job because every once in a while someone is out there without hope, desperately praying for their life, and we get to be the answer.

U.S. Coast Guard

#26. Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Seamus Heaney

#27. When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. Life punishes the undisciplined.

Sunday Adelaja

#29. But all remains unchanged.

Franz Kafka

#30. You and your SoulMate are pioneers on the frontier of spiritual partnerships. You are the cusp of the next evolutionary wave. As architects of true SoulMate relationships, you are the Magellans of inner space.

Annette Vaillancourt

#31. America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Sarah Palin

#32. Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.

Bryan Q. Miller