Larry DiRita Quotations

What he's doing is elevating the perspective of the leadership of this department and asking: 'I don't know the answers to these questions, but they're on my mind and I want them on your mind too.'

I don't doubt every colonel wishes he had more in his area, but the decisions about how troops are (deployed) are made by the commanders above them.

He has a sense that public vetting of this information is likely to be as good an astringent as any other process we could develop.

to look up and look beyond the treetops.

We have not been able to find anything that would corroborate the kind of detail Lt. Col. Shaffer and Congressman Weldon seem to recall.

The secretary is not saying anything like what the memo's been characterized,

This is the most hysterical piece of journalist malpractice I have ever observed.

It's what he does. He injects urgency, he asks questions and he gets people thinking about things and that's what this memo, hopefully, will do. It appears to have had that effect,

In many cases, we are holding people accountable, prior to people even knowing that there was a case. And that's not anybody's fault. That's just the way the military justice system operates.