“Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.”

I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.

I am not a fan of politics.

People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.

But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

I’m just trying to get back to normal life.

None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.

I did want to be the top sniper.

It is our duty to serve those who serve us.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.

One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

Once or twice I’ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I’ve ever seen.

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; ‘Tis what I feel, but can’t define, ‘Tis what I know but can’t express

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

I don’t see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.

Managers need to create what I call “customer pictures,” verbal descriptions of customers that highlight the key customer characteristics and make those customers come alive.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.