I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier's leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.

Kendrick Lamar, he has stood up for peace and love in our community. When he could have just stood up for himself.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.