The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

Teach your kids to make deplorable choices and hopefully they'll rebel and make the right ones.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.