“If you look at the funding of far-right parties in Europe - where's the money coming? We do know that 9 million euros was given by Russia, through a Czech bank, to [French National Front leader] Marine Le Pen. We know that this is not an isolated case. This is happening elsewhere.” IfsKnowsLooksGivenPartyLeaderMillionsCasesFrontsHappeningsEuropeRussiaPensIsolatedElsewhereMarineFundingEuroCzech Author:Toomas Hendrik Ilves
“I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature.” ThinkingWayFoundCreaturesGoogleMarineMarine CorpsBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do. We are actors and to be honest, I am the type of person that can reference a thought or a smell and get high.” PersonsBigsActorsCreativeHonestTypeSmellBeing HonestMarineGetting HighSmokers Author:Tommy Chong
“Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working.” AvailableMarijuanaMarine Author:Tommy Chong
“Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.” ShouldHandsMetsBarackMarine Author:Tommy Chong
“Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.” WorldYearsSaidMomentsHomeSchoolHalfWake UpLeavingUniversityInjusticePrivilegeAwakeningFlamesBubblesMarineMerchantsMichiganPrepsSophomoreWake Up CallLeaving HomeSophomore YearUniversity Of MichiganMerchant Marine Author:Bill Ayers
“I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.” FirstsWarHeardNew YorkConversationConstitutionInternationalSquaresVietnamMarineIntroductionArrestedMerchantsAthensMerchant Marine Author:Bill Ayers
“We were very excited and we brought speakers in then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothers, one SDS person put up a sign with a quote from the Nuremberg trial and an arrow point at the marine recruiter, saying, "This man is a war criminal." My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.” MenPersonsWarFactsYoungHappenedBrotherCaughtExcitedCriminalsDebateTrialsVietnamSpeakersSheetsCaught UpMarineArrowsPhenomenalCampusFreshmanSophomoreYounger BrotherNurembergNuremberg Trials Author:Bill Ayers
“[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.” IraqCombatAfghanistanMarineGeneral James Mattis Author:Peter R. Mansoor
“Sometime ago, I teamed up with a former Marine attack helicopter pilot. We were both frustrated by biased coverage of women in the military and said, let's form some kind of nonprofit entity where we can start highlighting the prevalence of bias in the media.” KindSaidFormMediaMilitaryFormerPilotsFrustratedEntityBiasMarineCoverageBiasedHelicoptersNonprofitsHighlightingMilitary Women Author:Paula Broadwell
“This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.” ThinkingWorldKindSchoolSpiritualParticularFavorsBiasMarineConceptual Thinking Author:Leonard Cohen
“I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell."” KnowsMadeSaidUsedRoomsMetsSellsCoatsDressingsMarineJacketsBrooksMerchantsPeasDressing RoomsMerchant Marine Author:Gene Wilder
“If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to have direct access to AP wires. The day the marines landed in Haiti and restored [ Jan Bètran] Aristide there was a lot of excitement about the dedication to democracy and so on. But the day before the marines landed, when every journalist was looking at Haiti because it was assumed that something big was happening, the AP wires reported that then [Bill] Clinton administration had authorized Texaco to ship oil illegally to the military junta.” IfsLooksBigsDemocracyHappenedMilitaryInformationHappeningsFlowDirectBillsPressesConstantClintonOilAccessShipsAdministrationJournalistExcitementDedicationMarineWireHaiti Author:Noam Chomsky
“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.” KnowsTwoCoursesStreetsWallMonthsNewsPressesOilNewspapersReportsArticlesMainstreamJournalMarineLandingHaitiTwo MonthsPetroleumWall Street Journal Author:Noam Chomsky
“General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.” YearsStatesUnitedUnited StatesMembersPrimariesMarineMarine CorpsUnited States MarineUnited States Marine CorpsGeneral James Mattis Author:James Mattis
“Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.” PeopleWorldHas BeensWarCitiesTheaterIncludingAround The WorldSoccerEngagedMarineAprilCommandersBattlefieldsStadiumsGraveyardSiegeGeneral James MattisUs Marine Author:James Mattis
“What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.” RolesGroupsExamplePositionHigherAuthorityConcernedCourtKillingVariousCriticalUnitsAccusedMarineCommandersBattlefieldsAtrocitiesProceedingMassacresRanking Author:James Mattis
“Yousef Aid Ahmed has memorized the places where his four brothers' bodies laid after they were killed by US marines, he said. The family recounts that November day in 2005 and says it was a massacre of the brothers, along with 20 other people, following a roadside bomb in Haditha.” PeopleSaidBodyFourBrotherFollowingAidsBombsMarineNovemberMassacresRoadsideFour BrothersUs Marine Author:James Mattis
“The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.” IfsTryingCountryUseResultsSituationTruth IsTerroristDamageCaptureFewerMarineCiviliansUnwillingCasualtiesDronesCollateralCollateral DamageCivilian Casualties Author:Barack Obama
“In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.” YearsIndividualPresidentMissingOfficeArmyIndependenceFinalsSentencesListsNativeActivistPrisonerPresident ObamaNative AmericanOscarsMarineRetiredMarine CorpsChelseaWhistleblowersPez Author:Amy Goodman
“The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.” WorldShouldWarOrderBeliefPolicyThis WorldTrumpRepublicanConcernAgreeInstitutionsStructureUnionsDemocraticDemocratRussiaPostsWar Of The WorldsPensSovietWorld War IiForeign PolicyWorld War ISoviet UnionHostileMarinePutinWorld OrderBipartisanAmerican Foreign Policy Author:David Brooks
“Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.” WorldWarSeemsCertainValuesFightingTrumpInstitutionsIslamTraditionalAround The WorldWar Of The WorldsPensWorld War IiWorld War IMarinePutinAlliancesNo RespectPopulistSemblanceTraditional Values Author:David Brooks
“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” MomentsHeroInequalityEnduranceCombatHeroismMarineMarine CorpsUsmcUnited States MarineUnited States Marine CorpsMy MarineEndurance Sports Author:George F. Kennan
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.” WatchesSeaOceanCurrentsBeachTiedSailSailingMarineHarborsCriminal MindAdvertising AgenciesSailing And The SeaMarine LifeMarinersOcean SeaOceans And SeasSea LifeBeach And OceanBeach OceanSea WaterSea And SkySea ChangeProfiles In CourageSea And BeachCool BeachSailing And LoveGoing To The BeachSea PowerOcean Currents Author:John F. Kennedy
“I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.” PeopleThinkingStatesFactsFeelingsSchoolUnitedExistenceUnited StatesPlayerExampleBasketballHigh SchoolRedGenderAttractionStatementsCharacteristicsTexasAccurateMarineDefiningBasketball PlayerBest BasketballUnited States Marine Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“I went out to cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fundamentally [in Buzzing at the Sill] because I was interested in war as a notion and in experiencing it. I was interested in history and how societies form. I was interested in the recent history of what had provoked these wars. So when I finally got out there, I was really seeing the wars through the American perspective, much more than through being embedded with American soldiers and Marines.” WarFormSeeingPerspectiveNotionSoldierIraqAfghanistanMarineEmbeddedProvokedAmerican Soldier Author:Peter van Agtmael
“Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, maybe a right winger might knock off Merkel in Germany, and you'd have this sort of, essentially, a nationalist populist alliance that can only be made sense of when seen as a right-wing, white nationalism against the world. Because, who do they want to fight? They want to fight Asia and China, they want to fight Latin America and Mexico.” PeopleWorldWantMadeMightAmericaFightingWhiteTrumpIdealsWingsChinaGermanyNationalismPensLatinMexicoAsiaMarinePutinAlliancesRight WingLatin AmericaPopulistIdeal World Author:Van Jones
“A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.” IfsWellsMayProblemBigsGrowingSafeUnderstoodFishesChainsPlasticMarineFood ChainBig Changes Author:Tim Winton
“I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.” KnowsWayEndsFeelingsSeemsMightCommunityKnowingSeaGrewGrew UpEnlightenmentSickTownsWingsAbsenceMy WayAustraliaFishingGapsConservationHookMarineRedneckDoseSpearsHunted Author:Tim Winton
“What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.” KindDifferentRealUseAmericaLanguageVisionRightsFeminismMovementReturnTrumpImmigrationCivil RightsAppealsPensImaginaryTechnologicalGlobalizationMarineCivil Rights MovementNostalgicTechnological Change Author:Anne Applebaum
“The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.” KnowsHas BeensWarCountryReasonTodayFightingSituationPoetDoctorsIslamFeministMissionsDrivenLawyerRegionsAlsPretendingAfghanistanMarineMedievalLiberatedAl QaedaMilitiaShiaPsychopathicLiberated Woman Author:Arundhati Roy
“In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.” YearsWarCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesFeminismFeministMissionsBombsOccupationAfghanistanSovietRidingBrutalMarineLiberatingTalibanAfghanKabul Author:Arundhati Roy
“Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.” PeopleIfsBelieveRealUseHomeBigsTodayAmericaEnergyTermNaturalHalfCarStandardsIndependenceShipsFuelGasElectricityCarbonCoalTruckMarineRelianceLiquidEmissionsCleanersProvidersBountyNatural GasCarbon EmissionsEnergy Independence Author:Thomas Friedman
“The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.” PeopleValuesReligiousFocusTaughtCommitmentLike MeMarineMarine CorpsValue Systems Author:Bob Lutz
“I've always been very aware of environment. When I was a kid I wanted to be a marine biologist until I realized I hated being underwater. I think a lot of that came from traveling and seeing the levels of waste produced by so many factories around the world.” ThinkingWorldKidsEnvironmentI RealizedHatedMarineBiologist Author:Maria Cornejo
“I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, and another book about evolution. Seasteading captivated me because it incorporates both evolution and environmental restoration.” BookEvolutionEnvironmentalMarine Author:Joe Quirk
“Hillary Clinton lost because of who she is, because of her track record of failure, because there's no resume, there's no record of experience that she's good or qualified at anything. She cannot cite any achievements or accomplishments, other than traveling miles and being named after people she wasn't named after and being told to go join the dogs by somebody at the Marine Corps. She's exposed.” PeopleDogAchievementClintonTrackAccomplishmentMarineMarine CorpsCiting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That's precisely what I did. Let's not forget Raqqa is not the first capital of the Islamic State. The first capital of the Islamic State when it was called the Islamic State was the Iraqi city of Ramadi. And the only way I was able to access that city was by going in with American marines and soldiers who were desperately fighting for their lives.” FightingForgetSoldierIslamicMarine Author:Michael Ware
“Coral reefs are the backbone for the entire ocean. They are the nursery for the ocean. About a quarter of all marine life in the ocean spends part of its lifecycle on a coral reef. And there are about a billion or so people that depend on coral reefs for fish for their food, for protein.” PeopleOceanMarineBackboneNursery Author:Jeff Orlowski
“I spent four years in the Marine Corp, and a big part of the Marine Corp, especially in boot camp, is torture. The military is not going to like me saying that, but that's what it is. Boot camp is one of the most torturous things I've ever been through.” MilitaryTortureMarine Author:Travis Aaron Wade
“I suppose the marine biology was a post-teen thing. I was kind of on my way but I was one of those teenage boys who got to 13, 14 and had no idea what I was going to do. I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.” KindNaturalInterestingBoysMy WayBiologyTeenageMarine Author:Giles Deacon
“I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. Acting didn't come up until much later, probably about 16 or 17. I thought, "Oh, I quite like this."” ActingMarineBiologist Author:Freema Agyeman
“Virtually everything I learned about leadership traits and core values, I learned in the Marine Corps. To this day, I keep a list of the traits in a little black book, 14 of them, including integrity, justice, bearing, enthusiasm, endurance - all indicators you aspire to when you're a leader.” BookValuesBlackJusticeLeaderIntegrityEnthusiasmEnduranceThis DayTraitsMarineMarine CorpsCore Values Author:Raymond Kelly
“Look at me, the Front National got many more votes than the Alternative for Germany. Marine Le Pen ended up with 34 percent of the vote, 34 percent! I defended Europe, an open society and all my values. The Front National has been significantly weakened. In the debates, you don't hear anything from them anymore - because we engaged them in battle. Now is the time to be bold! The only answer to the Alternative for Germany is courage and ambition.” ValuesBattleAmbitionVoteDebatePensLook At MeMarine Author:Emmanuel Macron
“If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you. But when you're sort of living with people who are there, we just press record and let them tell the story.” PeopleMeanMarineEmbeddedLip Service Author:Shane Smith
“So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.” PurposeCausesTeachHigherConquerMarineMarine CorpsConquering FearHigher Purpose Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.” SchoolMilitaryMissionsMarineAcademyMerchantsMilitary SchoolMerchant Marine Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.” WorldNeedsShouldHelpingCertainMilitarySoldierAbandonedMarineSailorComradeNeed HelpMarine LifeAirmenCertain Knowledge Author:Jon Kyl
“It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.” PeopleI CanWarMomentsJobsEnemyClearWorstRegretDutyConscienceSoldierNaiveMarineBuddySealsDon't RegretClear ConscienceWorst Moments Author:Chris Kyle
“My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.” ShapesBasesGratefulWho I AmMarineI Am GratefulMy Marine Author:Jim Lehrer