136 Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf

truly the best thing America has to offer the world.

There is nothing in those logs at all about chemical contamination of my troops,

So the alarms went off all the time over there. When they did, we put our troops in protective gear and then we sent in our most sophisticated equipment.

You need that U.N. inspection team in there on the ground. They're the people that can find it and ferret it out,

They didn't want to go to war, they didn't want to leave their families, but when their country asked them to, they did, because they thought it was the right thing to do,

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.'

There were no reports, absolutely none, zero, ... I would have loved to have announced that we found huge caches of chemical weapons.

The Navy's battle force in the last eight years has been cut by one third. And the Air Force reports that it is now called on to mount four times as many operations with a force that has been cut by 40 percent,

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?