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

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed. "

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" 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.' "

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

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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. "

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

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I get angry at a principle, not a person. "

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

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" Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. "

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" 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. "

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

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" War is a profane thing. "

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" I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician. "

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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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