This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

All the heat should come my way

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.