One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

There are problems in the world today.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

All art forms possess liberty beyond space and time, yet grounded by urgency of now, and a breath of truth.

My men are my money.

Who am I?What is my mission?

Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.