Norman Schwarzkopf

Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.