Raymond T. Odierno's Quotes

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.