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

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.

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.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank.