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

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

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

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

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

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