Tommy Franks Quotes

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

Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 one hates war like a soldier hates war.

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

I'm a pretty serious Independent.