I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

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.

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

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.

Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.

All things under heaven are now in God's supervision for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!

Few things move as quietly as the future.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.