John Lehman
John Lehman
John Francis Lehman, Jr.is an American investment banker and writer who served as Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration where he promoted the creation of a 600-ship Navy. From 2003 to 2004 he was a member of the 9/11 Commission...
changes coming train
There is a train coming down the track. There are going to be very real changes made.
political side
everything we come out with, one side or the other seizes on to make a political point.
none rocket science
None of this is rocket science. None of it is in the 'too hard' category.
enemy olive open path
You have to have an olive branch, always. You have to have amnesties. You have to have a path always open to let the enemy back down, get off the limb, become reassimilated.
deep gather information intelligence provide
There is a deep fundamental dysfunction in the way we gather intelligence and provide information to the decision-makers.
deep gather intelligence-and-intellectuals
There is a deep fundamental dysfunction in the way we gather intelligence...
believe none possible rocket science
None of it is rocket science. None of it is in the too-hard category. We all believe it is possible to get all of these things achieved.
family load needed somebody work
There was work to be done and somebody needed to do it. It was a load the family didn't need to be baring.
challenged classic congress directly leadership lobbyists president washington
This is the classic confrontation you see in Washington ... because the president now has been challenged directly by the leadership of the Congress and by the lobbyists and by the bureaucracy, ... American Morning.
interest meet
I think that it is in their interest to meet with us.
chinese difficult elements others
Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed.
ocean opening-up eras
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
confusion kind power-corrupts
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
peace spring war
The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.