Somebody has to roll the dice. Mine are the hands that hold those dice. I'm not a bureaucrat, placing my career above the larger purposes I was put here to serve. I will not put the dice in someone else's hands, or pretend that I don't have the choice I have.

The only thing a commander ever truly controls is his own army - training, morale, trust, initiative, command and, to a lesser degree, supply, placement, movem…

Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life

We'll consider what you've told us. We wont be foolish You've already been foolish. I have no high expectations for you now.

When I was nominated for the position of Vice President I was very unenthusiastic about it. But I took the post because it provided a powerful platform to talk…

I feel as if it were time for me to write to someone who will believe what I write. I have been for some time in the atmosphere of certain success, so that I h…

'It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?'