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

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

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

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.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

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