William H. McRaven

If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

I'm not a political guy.

We must challenge this statement and this sentiment that the news media is the enemy of the American people. This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.

We're trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be - quiet professionalism.

Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to defend. One I did, in fact, defend for 37 years.