You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

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

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

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.