In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.
There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.
I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.
The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.
Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot.
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.