Quotes by James G. Stavridis - Page 1

Rested commanders are the best commanders.
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Best
Rested
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Controlling President Trump seems incredibly difficult.
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Controlling
President Trump
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I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.
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Syria
Apart
Entirely
Surprised
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In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.
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Security
Walls
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All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.
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Both Sides
Sides
Relatives
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Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.
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Peaceful
Russia
Stable
Coherent
Include
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None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.
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Building
Building Walls
Wall
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Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.
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Decision Making
Requirements
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When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
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Email
Firsts
Get Up
Check
First Thing
The First Thing
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We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.
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Excellent
Launching
Missiles
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Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.
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Inspiration
Motivation
Wall
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Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
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Afghanistan
Empires
Graveyard
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Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.
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Cia
Counterproductive
Fbi
Agencies
Fights
Highly
Internal
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No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
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Inspiration
Motivation
Smart
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As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.
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Intensity
Scale
Defend
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The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
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Clear
Nato
Attack
Them
Nation
Crystal
One Nation
Regarded
Shall
Treaty
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It is an ambitious agenda, but the approach to Russia should be, 'Confront where we must, but cooperate where we can.'
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Ambitious
Russia
Agenda
Confront
Cooperate
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Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.
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Inspiration
Military
Motivation
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I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.
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Baseball
Baseball Player
Modest
Size
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What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.
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China And India
India
People
World
World People Nation
Facebook
Largest
Million People
Third
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In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
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Allies
Clear
Insurgency
People
People Will Who
Irreconcilable
Present
Pose
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I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so what' of a story.
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Big Picture
Reporters
Aspects
Cover
Gravitate
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As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals seeking visas to our nation.
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Admiral
Lines
Seeking
Failed
Visited
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As a geographic location, Greece offers the best bases in the NATO Alliance from which to operate in the trouble spots of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
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Bases
Greece
Location
Middle East
Nato
Offers
Spots
Alliance
Geographic
Mediterranean
Operate
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Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives.
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Cooks
Drivers
Enough
Family Members
Importance
Lovers
Members
Our Lives
Pretty
Getting
Writers
Everything Else
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It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.
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Born
Grandfather
Greece
States
United States
Actually
Although
Came
His Way
Noting
Turkey
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Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.
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Critical
Data
Delivery
Military
Play
Visualization
Communities
Mission
Systems
Worldwide
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I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.
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Learning More
Linkedin
Social Network
Consumer
Networks
Facebook
Sites
Social Networks
Tumblr
Utilize
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I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding.
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Application
Colombia
Failing
Effective
Outcome
Succeeding
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I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.
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Navy
Sea
Ships
Specialty
Life Time My Life
Officer
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Front-line officials, including DEA agents, border patrol and other homeland-security professionals, should remind Mr. Trump how important Mexico's assistance is in achieving his national-security goals.
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Agents
Assistance
Border Patrol
Including
Mexico
Officials
Trump
Achieving
Border
Mr
Patrol
Professionals
Remind
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You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
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Balance
Insurgency
Military
Practice
Protect
Strategic
Get
Counter
Civil
Communications
Effective
Right
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I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University.
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Retired
Colonel
Graduating
Marines
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Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
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Men
Afghanistan
Force
Men And Women
Periods
Security Forces
Taliban
Education Time Women
Enter
Forces
Withheld
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All of the military services - land, sea, and air - spend a great deal of time awake. This is a direct result of the high tempo of operations we conduct while forward deployed well outside our national borders.
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Air
Awake
Borders
Direct
Military
National Borders
Operations
Sea
Tempo
Deployed
Forward
Great Deal
Result
Services
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I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.
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Debate
Fair Share
Petty
Vigorous
Ad
Attacks
Benefit
Exchange
Informed
Witnessed
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The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.
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Peers
Remains
Cooperate
Friendships
Graduate
Most Important Thing
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After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.
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Navy
Senior
Big Part
Time People Young
Officer
Uniform
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During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s.
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Committed
Mexico
Nafta
Numbers
Crimes
Domestic
Early 1990S
Rarely
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Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
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Millions
People
Smart
Thinking
Wikipedia
Withdrawing
Fundamental
Millions Of People
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of People
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If we discover through a thorough and unbiased investigation that Russia has indeed attacked our electoral process directly with the intent to influencing the process, our response needs to be robust, rapid, and proportional. This will shape our relationship with Russia profoundly.
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Electoral Process
Investigation
Response
Robust
Russia
Thorough
Unbiased
Attacked
Directly
Discover
Electoral
Indeed
Influencing
Intent
Profoundly
Proportional
Rapid
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Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin's popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines; pressuring nearby nations to join various defense and customs pacts dominated by Russia; and pushing back on the U.S. wherever convenient.
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Convenient
Customs
Defense
Maintaining
Pushing
Russia
Special Forces
Strategy
Weapons
Advanced
Dominated
Join
Nearby
Wherever
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In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.
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Advent
Bridges
Century
Goods
Movement
Security
Across
Correctly
Networks
Endlessly
Globe
Incorrect
Perceived
Tried
Walls
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It seems Russians hacked into emails from both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and then chose to release only the DNC emails. These attacks destabilize and undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and they must be addressed in a serious and proportional way - just as we would for a non-cyberattack.
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Electoral Process
Hacked
Release
Attacks
Chose
Committee
Russians
Electoral
Emails
Proportional
Undermine
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