The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers of refugees flowing out of the region, which increases the misery of the Syrian people.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.