Michael Mullen Quotes
I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.
Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.
I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.
Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.
The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.
We can't kill our way to victory, and no armed force anywhere - no matter how good - can deliver these keys alone. It requires teamwork and cooperation.
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.
Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.
I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.
Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.
We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.
I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.
