I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Sometimes there’s someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.