Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that 'shining city on a hill.' And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can't do it on the cheap.
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.
Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.
What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
