33 Quotes by Anthony Zinni

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

I think both sides have suffered far too much in the last months, and I think it's time for a change,

That decentralization was done so they insured they had control, ... I think it was done more for internal reasons and internal military problems they thought they might have than for any military preparations they had for us.

I think, clearly, he is trying to lure us into a possible shoot-down situation, and we are taking every measure to prevent that.

We are the world's leader. We fill a void. There is no one out there that even comes close to filling the leadership role that we have, and some of the moral responsibilities that we have.