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" I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.' "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" 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

" I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.' "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" 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. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

" Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" An awful lot has been written about my temper. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" 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

" If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" 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

" I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

" When placed in command, take charge. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" 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

" 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

" 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

" He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. "

Norman Schwarzkopf