I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable …

- Anthony Zinni

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what…

- Anthony Zinni

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to m…

- Anthony Zinni

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

- Anthony Zinni

We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit…

- Anthony Zinni

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

- Anthony Zinni

I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows …

- Anthony Zinni

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

- Anthony Zinni

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incom…

- Anthony Zinni