81 Quotes by Jack Keane

My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.

The military executes policy decisions.

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside of that, it has windows with an alleyway; then there's another wedge with windows outside, windows inside. And we call them the E Ring, the D Ring, the C Ring.

Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.