More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.