Quotes from James G. Stavridis

All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.

As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.

We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.

I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.

If we discover through a thorough and unbiased investigation that Russia has indeed attacked our electoral process directly with the intent to influencing the process, our response needs to be robust, rapid, and proportional. This will shape our relationship with Russia profoundly.

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.

It seems Russians hacked into emails from both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and then chose to release only the DNC emails. These attacks destabilize and undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and they must be addressed in a serious and proportional way - just as we would for a non-cyberattack.

As a geographic location, Greece offers the best bases in the NATO Alliance from which to operate in the trouble spots of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.