"I can't tell you how many times I've walked down a street and someone has said, 'Hey, general, how's the war going?' And I've had to say, 'I don't know, I'm just the President.'"

"The military-industrial complex is a threat to our democracy. We must guard against it."

"I'm not going to sit here and tell you that everything is going to be alright. But I am going to tell you that we will do our best."

"I just wanted to make sure that people understood that I wasn't just a general, that I was a human being."

"The United States must not be a nation that seeks to dominate others, but one that seeks to cooperate."