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

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.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

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.