Michael Mullen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.
-- Michael Mullen

#Military #Care #Way
I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.
-- Michael Mullen

#Military #Guy #Decision
The best day was when we got bin Laden.
-- Michael Mullen

#Bin Laden
I'd have no problem serving under any president.
-- Michael Mullen

#President #Problem #No Problem
Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
-- Michael Mullen

#Lying #Gay #Men
We cannot kill our way to victory.
-- Michael Mullen

#Victory #Way
Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.
-- Michael Mullen

#Men #Thinking #Giving
To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war that many feared never came to pass. We are thankful for you, as we are for all the veterans here with us.
-- Michael Mullen

#War #Effort #Victory
The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
-- Michael Mullen

#Thinking #Existentialism #Cyber
The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.
-- Michael Mullen

#Safe Haven #Als #Return
I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore.
-- Michael Mullen

#Keys #Broken #Long
I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.
-- Michael Mullen

#Thinking #People #Would Be
I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.
-- Michael Mullen

#Responsibility #Thinking #Information
We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.
-- Michael Mullen

#Thinking #Years #Oil
In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.
-- Michael Mullen

#Military #War #Down And
We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are those who see [the JSF] as the last manned fighter/bomber. And I'm one that's inclined to believe it-whether it's right or not.
-- Michael Mullen

#Military #Real #Believe
I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good
-- Michael Mullen

#Military #Blessed #Navy
Dont try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.
-- Michael Mullen

#Running #Cutting #Trying

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