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 tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

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

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

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

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

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