Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf

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H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. was a United States Army general. While serving as Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War.
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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 main...

Norman Schwarzkopf

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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...

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Norman Schwarzkopf

It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

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 i...

Norman Schwarzkopf

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 ev...

Norman Schwarzkopf

Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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 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

Author Bio

  • NameNorman Schwarzkopf
  • DescriptionUnited States Army general
  • AliasesHerbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.; H. Norman Schwarzkopf
  • BornAugust 22, 1934
  • DiedDecember 27, 2012
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAerospace Engineer; Engineer
  • AwardsDistinguished Flying Cross; Bronze Star Medal; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The Bath; Legionnaire Of Legion Of Merit; Purple Heart; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Air Medal; Legion Of Honour; Silver Star; Air Force Distinguished Service Medal