NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

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

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.

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

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 saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

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

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

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.

Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

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.

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