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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

" I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that. "

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

" It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for. "

" I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. "

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

" Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. "

" As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.' "

" 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. "

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

" When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived. "

" 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. "

" War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can. "

" 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. "

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" Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot. "

" 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. "

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