Coast Guard Quotes

• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Yale, Hands

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• I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.

  Wallace M. Greene

  Military, People, Vietnam

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• The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

  Howard Coble

  Long, Done, Coast

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• The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.

  Russ Carnahan

  Agency, Shining, Example

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• From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

  Russ Carnahan

  Important, Defense, Natural

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• Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.

  Robin Hayes

  Commitment, Marine, Army

  Congressional Record, V. 150, PT. 8, May 18, 2004 to June 1, 2004, Government Printing Office, p. 10718, 2009.

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• I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

  Dave Reichert

  Faith, Men, People

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• Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Thank God, Trying, Borders

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• I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.

  Narendra Modi

  Army, Warrior, Air

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

  Russ Carnahan

  Country, Important, Citizens

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

  Howard Coble

  Workout, Military, Exercise

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• Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Determination, Years, Administration

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• Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Oil, Ducks, News

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• I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable

  Alexander Shulgin

  Spiritual, Marijuana, Government

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• Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

  David McCord

  Moving, Islands, Rocks

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• These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

  Steve Finley

  Sight, Law, Safety

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