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

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.

None of us wants any more war.

When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit

When it comes to happiness, why would anyone want to delay it?

Trust God, He will care for your every need.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.

I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.