Jason Kander Quotes

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

I am a soldier. That is who I am. That is what I do.

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

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

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had.

I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.