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.

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

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

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

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