TOMMY FRANKS

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.

We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.

I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

The dumbest fucking guy on the planet.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan.

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.

A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.