Martin Dempsey: “Intelligence is hard, thankless work. Fortunately, we have dedicated, patriotic, and courageous men and women on the…”

You cannot kill all the militants in the world with all the air strikes in the world. It just doesn't work that way. You have to kill the ideology.

If anybody here thinks I want to be the Chairman that goes down in history for having carved up pay and compensation and health care, I assure you I do not. I don't want to be that Chairman. The problem is there's going to be a Chairman…

There are five or six or seven places you can find money in a budget. They have looked. There is nothing left under the mattress.

we are putting our military on a path where the force is so degraded and so unready that it would be immoral to use force.