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When placed in command, take charge.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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Norman Schwarzkopf
Age: 78 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: December 27
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Military Officer
Trenton
New Jersey
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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.
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I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
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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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First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
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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.
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I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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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.
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