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

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

When placed in command, take charge.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

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.