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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTrue courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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
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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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