I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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