Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf - Page 2

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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Accomplish
Human Life
Loss
Minimum
Realization
Trying
Life Good Your
Figure
Mission
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I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Army
May
Proud
Reputation
General
One-Dimensional
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Garbage
Obliged
Fish
Catch
Problems People Feel
Limit
One Of The Problems
Renewable
Resource
Throw
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Inspiring
War
Father
Left
Mothers Day
Soldier
Fathers
Mothers
Understands
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Gulf War
Terrible
Unfortunate
Gulf
Guys
Met
Truly
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Cancer
Inconvenience
Living Proof
Normal
Normal Life
Proof
Temporary
Life I Am Living
Catch
Early
Reduced
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There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Doubt
Following
No Doubt
Blowing
Commander
Instructions
Ordered
Received
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If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Fall
Iraq
Mass Destruction
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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Environmentalist
Mankind
Mutual
Nature Believe I Believe
Benefit
Wacko
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War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Differences
Opposing
Profanity
Sides
Settle
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He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Military
Schooled
Strategist
Arts
General
Neither
Nor
Operational
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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.'
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Different
Done
Hindsight
Looks
Facing
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I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Military
Position
Strategy
Approximately
Attack
Student
Favor
Ratio
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I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Enemy
Throwing
Waste
I Am People Doing
American Lives
Attacks
Avoid
Guys
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But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Jobs
Careers
Driven
Ruined
Years
Me Back Go
Career
Defy
Fired
Service
Whom
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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
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Alarms
Giving
Sides
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I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Shadow
Standing
Myself People See
Begin
General
Visualize
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Build
Alarm
Side
Chemical
Err
False
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Fighting
Love You
Mean
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Leadership
Leader
Military
Okay
Soldier
Whim
Fight
Him
Shoot
Tell
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Advantage
Giving
Leader
Manipulative
People
Tasks
Take
Streak
Each
Effective
Working
Figure
Give
His
Take Advantage
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Country
Done
Intention
Iraq
Destroy
Overrun
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Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Iraq
Nations
Occupation
Taken
United Nations
Would Be
Bearing
Costs
Dinosaur
Pit
Tar
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Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Danger
Georgia
Lightning
Southern
Storm
Beaches
Unfortunately
Quickly
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Knowledge
Cancer
Position
Inside
Attack
Door
Hospital
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
War
Arms
Dying
Horror
Soldier
Understand
Feeling
Terribly
Futile
Hold
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I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Army
Caring
Reputation
One-Dimensional
Human Being
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When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Given
Invasion
Strategic
Basis
Derived
Objective
Plan
Planned
Specific
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Business
Able
Correctness
Ought
President
Decisions
Anybody
Commenting
Fired
Generals
Spot
Thinks
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The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Defence
Dump
Headquarters
Location
Patriot
Target
Missile
Specific
Supply
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Wise
War
Enough
Want
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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 Schwarzkopf /
Men
Character
Judging
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
War
Nice People
Remember
Tragedy
Somebody
Beautiful Place
Full
Deliberately
Destroy
Set
Saw
Iraqis
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Love
Commitment
Country
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Home
Being There
Important
Long
Single
Wonderful
Come
Stand
All Day
Around
Time Home Long
Fish
Cast
Catch
Crystal
Still
Stream
Wonderful Time
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Leadership
Saws
Want
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Art
Great
Men
Hussein
Military
Saddam
Schooled
Soldier
Strategist
Being
Man
Arts
General
He
Far
Neither
Nor
Operational
Other
Saddam Hussein
Than
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Respect
Great Love
People
Proportion
Temper
Thinking
Love Respect Great
Love Great Always
Blown
Everything Else
Fact
Unfortunately
Regretted
Worked
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When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Brain
Humans
Size
Anything Else
Fish
Declare
Won
Victories
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What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
America
Country
Enjoy
Fishing
Heritage
Hunting
Ordinary
Understand
Citizen
Part
Nation
Ordinary Citizen
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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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War
Army
Military
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In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Forgiveness
God
Jobs
Military
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A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Army
Capability
Dedicated
Equipment
Numbers
Best Good Great
Cause
Deal
Fight
Great Deal
Largest
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Education
Alone
Government
Baghdad
Capture
Geneva
Iraq
Maintaining
People
Restoring
States
United
United Kingdom
Education Government People
Alone Government People
Considered
Costs
For The People
Hague
Occupying
Powers
Provisions
Services
Therefore
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Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Eye
People
Two
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Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Attention
Together
Used
Work Together People
Hit
Dealing
High
Eyes
Particularly
Having
Mule
Necessary
Rank
Work Together
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As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Asia
Country
East
East Asia
Gallant
Honor
Middle
Middle East
Motto
Race
Rice
Southeast Asia
West
West Point
Young
Die
American
Background
Creed
Fight
Field
Fullest
Saw
Learned
Meaning
Point
Sands
Southeast
Young Americans
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I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Jobs
Marine
Military
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More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.
Norman Schwarzkopf /
War
Cutting
Wall
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