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

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

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 err on the other side

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.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

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