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.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

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.

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.'

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

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

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.