John F. Kelly Quotes
The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. 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.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
I grew up in Boston in a very, very, very Marine town. So back in my neighborhood in Boston, a working-class neighborhood, when you got your draft notice, you went down, and you took your draft physical. And then, if you passed it, you joined the Marine Corps.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
The comforting news for every American is that our men and women in uniform, and every Marine, is as good today as any in our history.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
I'm pretty committed to the Constitution.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
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.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, have broken the mold and stepped out as men and women of character who are making their own way in life while protecting ours.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
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.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
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.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son or daughter. You try to imagine it so that you can write the right kind of letters or form the right words to try to comfort. But you can't even come close. It is unimaginable.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
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.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
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.
John F. Kelly
Former White House Chief of Staff
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