36 Quotes by Eric Shinseki

If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, stand in his face and get it started. Then go around, brigade by brigade, making it make sense.

In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.

Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.

The price for achieving that kind of readiness in our early deploying units has been to accept risk elsewhere in the force.

We're talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems,

We have diverted soldiers from other organizations to fill our high-priority, war-fighting formations, ... Second, we have, for years, mortgaged our future readiness -- this modernization effort -- in order to assure that our soldiers had, in the near-term, what it takes to fight and win decisively.

That NCO has now been removed from his position, but Maj. Gen. Robert Clark, who commanded Fort Campbell and has now been promoted, was absolved of any blame,