Steel Tiger Quotes

“He hoped and prayed that God had a special place for soldiers of any religion, of any country, of any age, who trusted so much their leaders and their cause.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“I don't like to take a shit every day. But to stay healthy I have to. Sometimes I'm constipated, sometimes I have diarrhea. But I must shit or I'll die. So it is with the press; messy, undignified, but absolutely essential to a healthy nation. Unfortunately, some of the journalists are like hemorrhoids, they contribute nothing, block progress, and are a great pain in the ass.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“He stood, looking out for a few seconds at the darkness that was Arlington Cemetery. He knew every man sleeping there, and in the hundreds of tended cemeteries and lost graves of American soldiers throughout the world. These men slept knowing before they died they could trust their leaders. He turned to face the Chairman.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“Which is I've had it with those ungrateful bastards. Give your all for your country and what do you get? Some punk kids wearing the American flag on their ass throwing stuff and spitting on you. It used to be if there was a war and you weren't in uniform you got spit on. The hell with `em.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“If somebody's shooting at me, it's a war. And if it isn't, I'll declare one.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“astrological scatological rhyme about the young man from Rangoon who tried to fart his way to the moon. Seems he flopped as a rocket, shit in his pocket, and died in a rectal typhoon.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“I just accept whatever mission you give me, salute, and go do it. That's what I signed up for. I remember that JFK said to bear any burden, pay any price to assure liberty.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“If we had the right civilian leadership, we would have responsive military leadership. But I ask you, how can you lead somebody when you don't know where you are going?”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“Growing up in the U.S means that there are people out there who hate you just because you are what you are..be it black or rich, Jewish or Irish Catholic, whatever. Anything different from the bigot. There are some small minded people out there who have got to think they are better than anyone else. So it goes.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“Management by fear. It made professional liars out of good men.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“and as long as his themes of anti-heroes, anti-war, and anti-military went along the lines and current trend his editor wanted, everybody was content. Text on battle scenes and true warriors was not in vogue; text about crazed G.I.s and bumbling generals was very much in demand.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“The journalists of the United States are generally in a very humble position, with a scanty education and a vulgar turn of mind...the characteristics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of the readers; he abandons principles to assail the characters of individuals, to track them in private life and disclose all their weaknesses and vices. Nothing could be more deplorable.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“He loved the rain and the raw energy of crashing storms. I'm going to die in the rain. Too much has happened to me in the rain. I'm going to die in the rain.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“The wheels in Washington say they see the light at the end of the tunnel." "That could be a train coming at you, you know,”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“McNamara has broken the unofficial contract between civilian leaders and military officers that the military will obey the civilians without question in return for the civilian leadership not squandering military lives.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

“Happy Fourth of July," he said in a voice thick with disgust. "Let's start another War of Independence. This time Let's separate from Washington.”
― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger

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― Mark Berent, Steel Tiger