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

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.

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.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.