I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt.

We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity.

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.