“The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.”

– Robert M. Gates

“The future of our nation is forever bound up in the development of Air Power.”

– Colonel William ‘Billy’ Mitchel

“The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.”

– General Alexander A. Vandergrift, USMC

“Promise me something, Pinky. Never breed.”

-Brain

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

-Old nautical proverb

“Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.”

-Richard N. Haass