141 Quotes by Jim Mattis

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq's Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys' table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.