An awful lot has been written about my temper.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

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.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.