Top 23 Coast Guard Quotes

Les Listes is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

The coast guard is not often thought of as part of the military; however, they are one of the eight branches of the US military. With that in mind, check out the top 23 coast guard quotes.

#23 – 20. Coast Guard Quotes

23. Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life. – David McCord

22. Thank God we’re going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces. – Barry McCaffrey

21. Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.- Gretel Ehrlich

20. I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.- Dave Reichert

#19 – 10. Coast Guard Quotes

19. Here’s a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they’re capturing it with ducks. – Jimmy Fallon

18. I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable – Alexander Shulgin

17. Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants – despite the Coast Guard’s determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years. – Solomon Ortiz

16. Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks. – Russ Carnahan

14. Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.- Robin Hayes

13. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less. – Allen West

12. The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.- Howard Coble

11. Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security. – Kit Bond

10. From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard’s duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.- Russ Carnahan

#9 – 1. Coast Guard Quotes

9. I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame. – Howard Coble

8. The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I’m such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat, I make training films for the Coast Guard, I listen to a great deal of opera. – Charles Nelson Reilly

7. These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. – Steve Finley

6. The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.- Russ Carnahan

5. We’ve done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA. – Michael Chertoff

4. First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. – Vito Fossella

3. I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. – Narendra Modi

2. I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear. – Wallace M. Greene

1. Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that. – Michael Mullen

Ideas for the top 23 coast guard quotes come from the following sources.^[1]azquotes – coast guard quote^[2]quote master – quotes about coast guard