Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
I don't engage in hypotheticals.
When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.
I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of secular liberals who get itchy and twitchy at any reminder of our religious roots as a nation.