I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war..

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to e….

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is..

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being….

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional..

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're n….

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat..

Choose to win Get mad, then get over it..

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it..

More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these….

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..

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having….

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, ….

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battl….

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

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind..

What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can….

An awful lot has been written about my temper..

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I'v….

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have….

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician..