To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

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

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

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

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.