I get angry at a principle, not a person.

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.

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

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.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.