The past decade has been a time of dynamic change for our military.

The easy thing to do when things are going well is to relax, maybe even go back to the old ways.

But make no mistake about it, there is a new Africa.

That pace of change might have been all right in the 19th century; it won't do for the 21st.

It happened because people like you believed in and embraced certain ideas.

The only way to do it is to stay ahead of the changes.

America is better off today than it was 6 years ago, that there are ideas behind the changes that took place in this country, and they're good ideas.

How do we deal with the fact that the old structures that people used as magnets for identity in the world are breaking down?

This is an entirely new way of adapting a program that has worked in the past to the needs of the future.

If we think about the future instead of the past, and change and not the status quo, and unity instead of division, and what helps everybody instead of what helps a few people, we are highly likely to make the right decision.

The enemy of our time is inaction.

We have only scratched the surface.

We're in a period of change.

we are making a difference

It is up to you to decide whether we're going to keep building that bridge to the future or build a bridge to the past.

Will we build a bridge to the future or a bridge to the past?

Delay will only help those who don't want to change at all.

Just think what we could do.