It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

You manage things and lead people.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Manage things. Lead people.

I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.