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

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

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

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

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

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