Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.