Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

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