Michael D. Griffin: “We need to get the bureaucracy out of the way we do contracting and small business work and get moving.”

We have to change from being a technology inventor to a technology user.

The most expensive and time-consuming place to discover a mistake is after I have delivered a weapons system to the field.

If we can restore that kind of thinking to a renewed global power competition, then we will actually never have to fight, because our adversaries will not want to take us on.

There is no finish line. It is a work in progress and always will be if we want to support peace and freedom in the world.