American - Public | May 11, 1950 -
Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.
John F. Kelly
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My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.
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We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.
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If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S. military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.' We do a disservice to the sacrifice of these people, particularly if they are killed, when we say there's no boots on the ground.
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I'm not for the mass collection of data. I go the other way.
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The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.
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If the Marines today are doing exactly the same thing their dads did in Vietnam and their granddads did in Korea and World War II, then how in the hell can we say that they're not as good?
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If you were to build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, you would still have to back that wall up with patrolling by human beings, sensors, observation devices.
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I'm pretty committed to the Constitution.
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To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.
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There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.
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We are at war and, like it or not, that is a fact. It is not Bush's war, and it is not Obama's war. It is our war, and we can't run away from it.
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