There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

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.

Don't be afraid to express to the world about how you feel... Ask Donald Trump.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

The dead pull the living down.

To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.

When I am upset about something, it gives me a stomachache. I have to address it right away so that I don't make myself sick.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.