You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.