I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.