- When discussing his goal of promoting diversity in the Navy, it was predicated on not having a force that all look the same, act the same and think the same, for "A predicatable force is a defeatable force"
- One more note on the Navy: "We defend a democracy but we are not a democracy". Simple but thought-provoking.
A Better Toolkit
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