Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

t I think what [James Mattis] will do with the deal is monitor it very, very carefully and make sure that Iran is complying with every stipulation of it.

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

As I say, you get labeled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.