I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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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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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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