If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.