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

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

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

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.