But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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

War is a profane thing.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

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

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.