In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.