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

War is a profane thing.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

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

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.

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.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.