We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

You are the only one that is responsible for loving your life unconditionally, no matter the level of its flaws.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.