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" Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Love
Give
Speeches
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" 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'd like to think I'm a caring human being. "
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Caring
Proud
Reputation
" Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Alone
Education
Government
" All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Dying
You
War
" I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
You
Student
Strategy
" True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
True
Job
Doing
" Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Eyes
Know
Together
" Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Speculate
You
Down
" This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Who
War
Terrible
" The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Fishing
Fun
Catching
" You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership
Far
Negative
" To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Strength
Leader
People
" I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
War
Successful
Lucky
" An awful lot has been written about my temper. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Awful
About
Written
" Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Good
Mission
Life
" There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Did
Up
Mind
" Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Village
Moving
Call
" When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Think
Thinking
Truth
" I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Responsible
Proud
Person
" I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Fight
Leader
Leadership
" A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Soldier
Professional
People
" I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Myself
Most
Circumstances
" I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Want
Political Campaign
Political
" When placed in command, take charge. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Command
Leadership
Take
" They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Good
Believe
Say
" I'd like to think I'm a caring human being. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Think
Caring
Human
" Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Limit
Fish
Feel
" Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Worth
Things
Soldier
" 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. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
United
United Nations
Dinosaur
" 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. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
Me
Tell
Service
" I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. "
Norman Schwarzkopf
War
Absolutely
Hate