JOHN F. KELLY

If people knew the details about terrorism, they would not leave the house.

Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Baghdad ain't shit.

Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

I'm pretty committed to the Constitution.

One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.

Given the opportunity to do another 9/11, our vicious enemy would do it today, tomorrow, and every day thereafter. I don't know why they hate us, and I frankly don't care, but they do hate us and are driven irrationally to our destruction.

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.

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.

Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.

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.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

If you want to get into the United States, the best way, I believe, is to ride the network. There is no convergence between, say, the criminal networks and the Islamic extremist networks.

My sincere advice to any citizen considering moving to the United States and crossing our boundaries in irregular migration, my best advice is to not do it.

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.

I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion.

I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

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.

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

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.'

To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.

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.

Years ago, people didn't wear seatbelts. Now, most people wouldn't get in a car without putting a seatbelt on.