I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good