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

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

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

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

When placed in command, take charge.

If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.

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.