The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

A President cannot always be popular.

The sergeant is the Army.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

‚The Lorax‘ book was intended to be propaganda.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

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

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Most people know nobody in the military.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.