President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

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.

Thanks to you my toughest life lessons.. it may appear that I'm falling, ... but, I' m stronger than I have ever been

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.