I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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