R. Lee Ermey

“I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.”

“Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.”

“I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.”

“I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.”

“We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!”

“There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.”

“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.”

“I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.”

“America's trying to do the best for its veterans.”

“Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.”

“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a...”