“What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cas...” — H. R. McMaster Quote

What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those cases. But most of us have fairly neurotic middle-class stressors.

We've seen in so many cases, Roger Goodell be judge and jury when it comes to players.

It would be meaningful if 'Taxi Driver' were to reinterpret cases that were unresolved in the past. A 16-episode miniseries was too short to contain all the stories that we could have told.

A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.