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.

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

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.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

When placed in command, take charge.

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

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.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

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.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

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

I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important.