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Jim Webb Quotes

I have strong reasons for being a Democrat. Basically if you want true fairness in society, you want to give a voice in the corridors of power for the people who otherwise would not have it, I believe that will come from the Democratic Party.

– Jim Webb

I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.

– Jim Webb

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

– Jim Webb

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

– Jim Webb

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.

– Jim Webb

If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.

– Jim Webb

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.

– Jim Webb

It’s a very tough thing to run for office, but it’s also the way the American people get to know you.

– Jim Webb

Some of my Democratic friends don’t like it when I say that, but Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat and still a leader. He brought strong people around him, and he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country.

– Jim Webb

Ronald Reagan came in – he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don’t like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.

– Jim Webb

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.

– Jim Webb

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

– Jim Webb

I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

– Jim Webb

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

– Jim Webb

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

– Jim Webb

Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question… This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and they now have to climb out of a deep hole.

– Jim Webb

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.

– Jim Webb

I’m a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.

– Jim Webb

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.

– Jim Webb

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.

– Jim Webb

I’m a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man’s world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

– Jim Webb

I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America’s involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.

– Jim Webb

I’m probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

– Jim Webb

The frustration of the Senate is that it’s slow. It looks like an aquarium.

– Jim Webb

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

– Jim Webb

It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.

– Jim Webb