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" As combat infantrymen and special operators, we received thousands of hours of firearms training. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Training
Combat
Hours
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" The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Good
Military
People
" Public television works hard to engage young learners and build the skills needed for a jump-start on life. We need our youngest to be curious, resilient and empathetic, and prepared for the jobs of the future. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Future
Television
Need
" Defeat the Taliban. Secure the population. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Taliban
Secure
Population
" What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes... is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who've never seen one or seen the effects of one. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Never
World
Seen
" To this day, I am saddened by Ranger Tillman's death, as I am for the loss of every service member I served with, and for the pain such losses cause each family. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Service
Death
Family
" There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Today
Age
Environment
" In combat operations in places like Afghanistan, we often confronted the specter of dangerous people with powerful weapons who were a threat to their community and to our soldiers. Our aim was to quickly determine who in that community was a legitimate actor who could be trusted with a firearm and who was not. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Community
Powerful
People
" As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Budget
Decisions
Tough
" If we are visiting Afghans, typically the Afghan governor, district or provincial governor, we see he doesn't wear body armor, and yet we're walking through his streets. I'm his guest. I think that that's important that I send a message that I trust him and I don't think I am more valuable than I think he is. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
See
Walking
Trust
" Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Life
Business
Like
" In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Relationship
Every
Perspectives
" Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Professional
Integrity
Honor
" The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty country. We need to look at everything we can do to safeguard our people. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Think
People
Need
" In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
See
Together
Society
" I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
War
Think
Patience
" My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Always
Soldier
Wanted
" In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Again
Time
My Life
" Political campaigns offer Americans an opportunity to adjust direction, reaffirm values, and recommit to the covenant that binds them together. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Together
Opportunity
Values
" When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I started running, and I started running distance, which I enjoyed. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Thought
Special
Running
" Empowering, cultivating, and ultimately serving those who follow you will unlock massive potential within your organization, allowing you to solve for problems in real time. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Problems
Time
Organization
" Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe that we deserted them in 1990 and 1991. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Trust
Amazing
Believe
" When I became commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force, I was leading thousands of individuals, from Special Forces to the broader interagency effort. I quickly realized that while we had the most best and most effective operators and small teams in the world, we were unable to scale. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Effort
World
Special
" Mike Hall was my old friend and, more important, the finest soldier I'd ever known. After over 30 years of service and then 18 months at a good civilian job, a phone call had brought the retired command sergeant major back on active duty to become the senior enlisted adviser of all international forces in Afghanistan. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Phone
Back
Friend
" I go back and think of President Kennedy, who had a military service background, but he comes into the presidency, and he's faced with a decision on the Bay of Pigs, with the C.I.A. and the military giving him data, and it turns out very badly. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Giving
Service
Data
" Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Organization
Impossible
Intelligence
" I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Learn
Trust
Leader
" If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you're going to be like tumbleweed. You're going to be blown. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Like
Newspaper
Others
" I'm a believer in the Afghan people, so I support an increase in forces there. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Believer
Support
People
" I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Want
American
Defeat
" There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
Only
You
Forever