David Hackworth

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.