Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the 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.

You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

I'm getting rid of the carried interest provision.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.