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.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

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.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.