Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

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

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

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

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.