Anthony Stasio Quotations

We live in the greatest country in the world. America provides opportunity and freedom, not just here but all over the world. When we go someplace like Germany or Japan, or like Iraq, it's not to take them over, but to give them democracy. I feel for our young people now fighting in Iraq. I'm so proud of them and the job they're doing.

They told us to charge up a hill and take an enemy position and we just did it. I did crazy things that you do when you are 17 and don't know any better. The Marines just love 17- and 18-year old guys for that reason.

It was the finest piece of legislation ever passed. Just in income taxes alone, the government got back several times over what it had spent on college tuition.

It was a great experience to grow up in the Depression. If one didn't work, one didn't have money. There was no welfare to fall back on.