Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Love can do much, but duty more.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.