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

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.

It has been a little surprising to me, anyway, is to find out through media that there actually have been several chemical attacks recently. Now, with some belief on my part, and I think a lot of people, that we thought we got rid of the chemical weapons with the regime that President Obama and President Putin put in place.

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.