If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
“It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.”
“I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.”