“When my time in the Army was cut short, I was fortunate to be able to ...” — Brian Mast Quote

“When my time in the Army was cut short, I was fortunate to be able to use funding from the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill to get my degree at Harvard.”

“Ensuring that we are good stewards of our environment begins with strong conservation efforts.”

“In September of 2010, I woke up in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. I looked down at the end of the bed where my feet should have been, and they weren't there.”

“The training that service members go through is grueling, but it instills in them everything they need to be successful on the battlefield and in life: grit, honor and duty. Grit keeps us alive, honor keeps us human and duty drives us to accomplish the impossible.”

“Whatever I am doing, I try to make it about something honorable, because if they are honorable things, I don't have to hide them from anybody.”

“In many ways, service is in my blood. My father and my uncles all joined the military, and when I graduated from high school, I knew that I wanted to follow in their footsteps and fight for my country.”

“When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.”

“Lebanon does not have a powerful army.”

“At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.”

“I had this drive to do the martial arts. It wasn't necessarily mixed martial arts, but I always had the drive to be a martial artist from being a kid watching them on TV, but especially from the Army where I got my first real taste of martial arts.”

“In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed.”

“There's most definitely a Davos bubble. You're in a small Alpine town that, for just four days in January, sees its population tripled with world leaders, CEOs, media, police, the army... and a whole bunch of people who aren't invited but just come to hang out.”