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" America's trying to do the best for its veterans. "

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" There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better. "

" I always love to come to Austin. "

" I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. "

" For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go. "

" Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy. "

" I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys. "

" The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. "

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

" Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. "

" Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends. "

" When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war. "

" 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. "

" I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap. "

" Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

" Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America. "

" Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days. "

" The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by. "

Sebastian Junger

" As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees. "

" It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on! "

" That's all I cared about too, was getting it right. "

" Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit. "

" 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. "

" On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. "

" Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. "

Douglas MacArthur

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