Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.

Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.

America will honor our treaty obligations.

If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.