What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.