American Quotes

I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

It's all about training smart.

I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

I lift weights and I run, that's what I do.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.