I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked. - Donald Rumsfeld

The technology revolution has transformed organizations across the private sector, but not ours, not fully, not yet. We are, as they say, tangled in our anchor chain. Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible. To that end, we're announcing today a series of steps the Department of Defense will take to shift our focus and our resources from bureaucracy to battlefield, from tail to tooth.

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

This war [in Vietnam] has been marked by so many lies and evasions... that it is not right to have the war end with one last lie.