I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war..

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

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….

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time..

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war..

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'd like to think I'm a caring human being..

I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understan….

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war..

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….

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 tacti….

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….

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting..

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?.

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