36 Quotes by Eric Shinseki

Sure, anytime a division commander reports C-4, we are concerned. We'll see what corrections need to be made.

It's not a battle that we would have designed. Heavy mechanized forces were coming up against light infantry, and frankly, we held our breath.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models... Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world- respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..