Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

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

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

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.

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.