"There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but be…"

"I didn't realize it at the time, but it became apparent to me later, that I had just experienced the most incredible …"

"We went out on a very cloudy day, in an area we probably should not have been operating in, and the two of us did a m…"

"The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just ab…"

"I remember a picture I saw in a paper not long before the wall came down. There was a man standing holding a very you…"

"When we went to Bosnia the people in Bosnia welcomed us with open arms, and I would go down the street and people wou…"

"With Leighton Smith in charge, we've got a Navy admiral running a predominantly land campaign — the first ever in NAT…"

"Our meeting with Admiral Leighton Smith, on the other hand, did not go well. He had been in charge of the NATO air st…"

"Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"