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I'm living the dream.
The Taliban is resilient.
America is not in decline.
Life is a competitive endeavor.
Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.
Iraq does have many, many different tensions.
Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.
I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.
The Afghan people do not take kindly to conquerors.
My whole life has been dedicated to public service.
The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right.
Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
There is no military solution to the challenges of Syria.
A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.
ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.
I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.
Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
Rumors of the American demise... have been greatly exaggerated.
I don't comment directly on actions or statements of candidates.
The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.
I will not ever run for political office, I can assure you of that.
The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.
Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.
The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.
The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.
You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.
We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.
There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.
The process to resolve post-Islamic State issues will be difficult and intense.
Don't forget Yemen, where there are also extremist elements, as we saw recently.
I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.
There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
The formulation of sound national policy requires finding the right overarching concepts.
Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open.