"My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it."

-- John W. Vessey, Jr.

#Jobs Quotes #Military Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.”
“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
“There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.”
“I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.”
“I didnt find it difficult to live in the Inherent Vice world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.”
“I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.”
“No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals”

Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

You may also like:

Caspar Weinberger
Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget
David M. Shoup
Commanding officer
Gordon R. Sullivan
James Forrestal
Former United States Secretary of Defense
Jeff Cooper
Author
Mark W. Clark
Soldier
Oliver P. Smith
General
Peter Schoomaker
Richard A. Kidd