In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield….

Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot..

Our world is becoming darker. The dangers are increasing from North Korea, whose recent provocation underscored the need to impose a higher price on ….

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has….

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while..

Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters….

I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I vote….

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they le….

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote..

Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down..

Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dign….

PowerPoint makes us stupid..

General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 ….

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida..

With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but….

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations..

ISIS is a threat to all civilized nations. America's intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, ….

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no man….

The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a….

2017 is going to be another tough year for the valiant Afghan Security Forces and the international troops who have stood and will continue to stand ….

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word..