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I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

~James Mattis

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Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.

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Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.

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There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

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The economy's always been the engine for our national security.

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I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.

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Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we'll train, we'll advise, we'll mentor, and we'll fight, and we'll fight well.

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I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

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There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: September 8th, 1950

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