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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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" 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. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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. "

" 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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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. "

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

" I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly. "