I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.

Integrity is the thing you do when no one seems to be watching.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.