If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they’re male, shoot ’em. Kill every male you see.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

...that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.