The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.