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

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" 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. "

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

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" 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

" The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that. "

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

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

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

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

" When placed in command, take charge. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. "

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

" 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 am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.' "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

" I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" 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.' "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

" 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. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

" It's nice to feel that you have a purpose. "

Norman Schwarzkopf