52 Quotes by James G. Stavridis

When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.