[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

t I think what [James Mattis] will do with the deal is monitor it very, very carefully and make sure that Iran is complying with every stipulation of it.

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

A chosen leader is just the reflection of what the collective mind (or "silent majority") truly think and feel.

When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

Opportunity doesn't knock on my door, I go and break its door down.

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.