52 Quotes by James G. Stavridis

The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.

Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s.

As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals seeking visas to our nation.

Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.

All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.

I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University.

After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.