I used to get beaten up by these green berets in my neighborhood. Some people call them Girl Scouts.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

That is why I took up the gun — not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk … about how we can make the world a better place.

I went out to dinner with a Marine. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast then."

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.