Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Yes live like there is no tomorrow but not because you don't want a tomorrow.

narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

We can't learn without pain.

If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.