Mark Esper
speaker
276 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Mark Esper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have a long road ahead of us with regard to sustaining the current MOU, the agreement with Lebanon as a spoiler.
And then secondly, I think big picture is getting to the nitty gritty on the details of the nuclear deal, if you will, and what that eventually looks like.
Africans need to invest.
I was always about public service, serving my country, the military, national security.
So to kind of get that call from the president and says, I want you to be my Secretary of Defense.
Yeah, it's one of those moments you don't forget.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
You've got to work hard.
You've got to go hard because we're saving people in the long run.
We'll be far more successful in the mission and bring far more people home if we train as hard and as realistic as we possibly can, you know, in peacetime.
To me, leadership always begins with integrity.
But when you run big organizations like the Department of Defense, which is, what, 2.8 million people, so much of it then has to be conveyed in other ways.
You know, I had a number of those situations arise, but to me, and I say this to CEOs today,
Thanks, Rudy.
Great to be with you.
We'll go back a few decades.
I grew up south of Pittsburgh, a small coal mining town.
And at age 18 left and went to West Point.
And I spent four years at West Point graduating in 1986.
I commissioned as an infantry officer and then went through all the various schools and programs, parachute airborne training, ranger training, pathfinder training.
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