Top 72 Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf

They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.

War is a profane thing.

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

For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

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.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

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.

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

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 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.