Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
I go where the sound of thunder is.
There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.
The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.