"Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America."

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"You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did."

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"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."

Control,

"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year."

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"When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war."

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"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."

People,

"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."

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"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."

Time, Day

"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."

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"I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share."

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"It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth."

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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Barack Obama, American President

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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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