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PowerPoint makes us stupid.
Fight with a happy heart and strong spirit.
The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.
Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.
Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot.
There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.
Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.
Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.
It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.
I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.
You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.
Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.
We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.
There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.
We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.
Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.
A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.
In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.
No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.
Right now, Russia's future should be wedded to Europe. Why they see NATO as a threat is beyond me. Clearly, NATO is not a threat.
An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.
We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.
There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.
It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.
If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one.
I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.
You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.
I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.
We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.
General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.
What would you do differently as defense secretary to compensate for this record in which the greatest military in the world, as we are constantly told, doesn't get the job done?
You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.
Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.
We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world... I'm not saying we have to commit right now, but certainly don't pull it off the table.
I think the core problem is much closer to recognizing where force is of value, where it is useful, and to distinguish that from situations in which war is not useful or is indeed counterproductive.
The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries - Libya, Somalia, Yemen.
2017 is going to be another tough year for the valiant Afghan Security Forces and the international troops who have stood and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Afghanistan against terrorism.
Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity. We're going to strip them of any kind of legitimacy.
I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.
With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but on the Central Intelligence Agency. And I'll always comply with the law.
Our world is becoming darker. The dangers are increasing from North Korea, whose recent provocation underscored the need to impose a higher price on this rogue regime, a problem that is not just the United States alone, but a problem for us all.
Once ISIS is defeated, there is a larger effort under way to make certain that we don't just sprout a new enemy. We know ISIS is going to go down. We have had success on the battlefield. We have freed millions of people from being under their control.