I think artificial intelligence will likely change the character of warfare, and I believe whoever masters it first will dominate on the battlefield for many, many, many years.

It is an honor of a lifetime to be appointed secretary of defense and to lead the greatest military in history.

Together, we will remain the most ready and capable military force in the world, which is what our nation expects and deserves.

The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.

I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.