I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

We can't kill our way to victory, and no armed force anywhere - no matter how good - can deliver these keys alone. It requires teamwork and cooperation.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

The Maker is the Most High.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

Everybody can digest milk when they're little.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!