There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries - Libya, Somalia, Yemen.

In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.

There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.