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As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense. ”
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. ”
I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions. ”
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality. ”
Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it. ”
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment. ”
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. ”
I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe. ”
If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources. ”
The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood. ”