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

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

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

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.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

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.'

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.