A success unshared is a failure..

I've never been fired in my life..

Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized..

Can you keep up with the lingo.

Say what you doin and not what you finna do.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of ….

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….

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden..

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure….

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling..

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great..

The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional uni….

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy..

I'd love to have a family -- sometime in the future..

We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world... I'm not saying we have to commit right now, but cer….

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out..

Arguably there's no school for any high position of leadership. That said, Theodore Roosevelt was remarkably well prepared for the presidency. He had….

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of….

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character..

I only eat things that you don't have to kill..