In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.