Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

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.

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

If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.