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I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

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Norman Schwarzkopf
Age: 78 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: December 27
General
Military Officer
Trenton
New Jersey
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
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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.
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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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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.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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.
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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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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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