In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality.

Spring can still be felteven if you lay under the bedFrozen heart can meltin coldness when wintry love misled

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.