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James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is the current and 26th United States Secretary of Defense and former United States Marine Corps general who served as 11th Commander of United States Central Command during the Presidency of Barack Obama.

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Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity. We're going to strip them of any kind of legitimacy.

Children, Dignity, Kills, Legitimacy, Religious, Say

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.

Army, Congress And The President, Law, Understand, Voted

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.

Sorry, Defense, Records, Secretary, Record

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

Decision, Trying, World, Decisions, Concentrate

We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world. . . I'm not saying we have to commit right now, but certainly don't pull it off the table.

Military, Pull, Skillful, Tables, World

An untrained or uneducated Marine. . . deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment. . . than the enemy.

Accomplishment, Deployed, Marine, Military, Uneducated, Untrained

I think the core problem is much closer to recognizing where force is of value, where it is useful, and to distinguish that from situations in which war is not useful or is indeed counterproductive.

Problem, Recognizing, Thinking, War

With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but on the Central Intelligence Agency. And I'll always comply with the law.

Agency, Army, Comply, Field, Law, Respect

You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Brain, Engage, Feared, Marine Corps, Military, Part

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

Als, Country, Defeat, Enemy, Hitler

I just hope we can find our way back to engaging with one another, arguing strongly with one another, and then going down and having a root beer together or something and - and having a good laugh about it as we work together for the best interests of the next generation of Americans who are going to inherit this country.

Beer, Country, Generation, Hope, Interests, Laughing

Once ISIS is defeated, there is a larger effort under way to make certain that we don't just sprout a new enemy. We know ISIS is going to go down. We have had success on the battlefield. We have freed millions of people from being under their control.

Defeated, Effort, Enemy, Freed, People

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Enemy, Night, Potential, Sleep, Spell

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.

Blow, Events, Mad Dogs, Event, Away

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Enemies, Enemy, Immoral, Innocent, Order, Shot

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.

Allow, Dream, Enemy, People, Start

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops. . . how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

Courage, Dickens, Hell, Inspirational, Like, Military

I think as we look at this problem of ISIS, it's more than just an army. It's also a fight about ideas. And we have got to dry up their recruiting. We have got to dry up their fundraising. The way we intend to do it is to humiliate them, to divorce them from any nation giving them protection, and humiliating their message of hatred, of violence. Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. They have - they cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity.

Children, Divorce, False, Isis, Religious, Somehow

I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia. And it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or I would call it unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them.

Intimidating, Mass, Mean, Nations, Russia, Unusual

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods. . . there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

Broken, Damaged, Military, Told, War

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