I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.