19 Quotes by Lawrence Korb

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

The real issue here is that you have a policy that is costing us money, hurting readiness and is really not fulfilling any national security objective.

I think he has now bought himself some time to withdraw slowly. But that assumes everything goes as planned next year.

Who is out there that is more ready than we are? What military in the world are we not ready to take on? I think it's dangerous to convey to the rest of the world who looks to us to provide leadership that we have more problems than we are letting on.

But on balance I'd say we had a net loss. Unfortunately, these other issues dominated that expose the US to charges of hypocrisy.