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

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

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