Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

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

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

Once ISIS is defeated, there is a larger effort under way to make certain that we don't just sprout a new enemy. We know ISIS is going to go down. We have had success on the battlefield. We have freed millions of people from being under their control.

Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity. We're going to strip them of any kind of legitimacy.