We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Interpretation
Supporting troops is necessary, but accountability and clear objectives should be established.
Edward Kennedy highlights the importance of supporting military personnel who are deployed not by their own decision but by government orders. However, he emphasizes that such support cannot be indefinite, and there should be a system in place for the administration to report back to the public about the situation and objectives of military involvement, ensuring accountability and transparency in governance.
In practice
In a public speech advocating for veteran benefits.
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race.
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.
The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
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