There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

True education gives you power. Education and experience make you wise.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but lose you.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.