It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man’s struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what’s been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor...

Civilians are like beans; you buy ’em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.But you can’t buy fighting spirit.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.