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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" When placed in command, take charge. "

" 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. "

" I like to say I'm not a hero. "

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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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" 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. "

" True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. "

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

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