What they're doing is they're trying to pretend that they're functioning well, leave the impression that people should give them money, their financiers, leave the impression that they're a viable organization and that they should get recruits, and just generally give encouragement to their people, |
What we are basically involved in is providing assistance and food and ammunition and liaison in a way that targeting should be more precise, ... These people have been fighting for ages. They know their own minds, and they are going to move when they see fit. |
What we will be doing at NATO is trying to help people connect the dots before something happens rather than afterwards. |
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict, ... It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before. |
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. |
What you have accomplished is truly remarkable, |
What you're doing is enormously important, |
What's happened is amazing for the speed with which it was executed, but also for all the things that did not happen, all the bad things that could have happened, because of that speed, |
Whatever is needed will be sent, and it won't be just U.S., ... It'll be coalition forces. |
When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views. |
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. |
When one looks back on this effort, I think and pray that what will be significant is that a large number of human beings, intelligent and energetic, have been liberated, |
When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets. |
When the history of this time is written, an era of tragedy and turmoil and triumph, I believe it will be said of Dick Myers that he was one of the most consequential chairman of the joint chiefs in our history, |
When there is damage done, it is not always exactly clear what caused the damage. |