Jim Webb
Jim Webb
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr.is an American politician and author. He has served as a United States Senator from Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Counsel for the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Marine Corps officer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.
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I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
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I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'
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I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
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I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
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I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.
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I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
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I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.
If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.
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I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don't think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.
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I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.
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The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.
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The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.