Jack Keane : (8)

" We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn’t have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone. " - Jack Keane

" Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us. " - Jack Keane

" If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS. " - Jack Keane

" United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization. " - Jack Keane

" Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing. " - Jack Keane

" I’m not in a position to go back into public service. " - Jack Keane

" The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it. " - Jack Keane

" By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda’s mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated. " - Jack Keane