Les Aspin

“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.”

“In the new world, we are going to have to be prepared to go to places, and from time to time, do things that are unpopular.”

“The threat is not from a single superpower that is going to challenge the United States. The threat is from a lot of little countries that are going to cause us a lot of trouble.”

“We're going to have to get used to the fact that we're a superpower, and we have to act that way.”