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• I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Circumstances, Chaotic

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.9, Bantam

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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, Mothers Day, Father

  "U.S. News & World Report", Vol. 110, Issues 5, (p. 32), February 11, 1991.

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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.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Judging, Enemy, Looks

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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, Want

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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, Military, Marine

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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

  Love You, Mean, Fighting

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• I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Hunting, Fishing, Apologizing

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• I get angry at a principle, not a person.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Principles, Persons, Angry

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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.'

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Different, Looks, Done

  "General Norman Schwarzkopf dies, aged 78" by Conal Urquhart, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2012.

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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, Country, Commitment

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.10, Bantam

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• 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.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Loss, Trying, Realization

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• 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.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Iraq, Mind, Looks

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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

  Country, Hunting, Fishing

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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, Iraq, Done

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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

  Wall, War, Cutting

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• I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  War, Successful, Lucky

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• I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Hate, War, I Hate

  "General Norman Schwarzkopf obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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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

  Taken, Iraq, Would Be

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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, Normal, Proof

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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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  Thinking, People, Great Love

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• An awful lot has been written about my temper.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Awful, Temper, Has Beens

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

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Politician

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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, Years, Careers

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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

  Giving, Alarms, Sides

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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.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Military, War, Army

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