I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

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.

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.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.