Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to fill some of them.