The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.

In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They’ll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice.

I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

Military life is hard, even cruel—especially for the kids.

We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.

We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.

I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.

Character is what a man is in the dark

During the course of your temporary hurdles, keep searching for a tad of optimism

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Things haven't always been this bad. Therefore, they won't always be this bad.

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

You see the world much better through a camera.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.