I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

There are problems in the world today.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.

Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.