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.

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.

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

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.

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.

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

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.