Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn't enough; dreaming about it isn't enough; thinking about it isn't enough. You've got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.