Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

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.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.