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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

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

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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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" Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action. "

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

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

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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. "

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" For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. "

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" 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. "

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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 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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