Richard Myers Quotes (76 Quotes)

This plan, and our thrust, and our major attacks, and the way it will unfold will be at a time and a place of our choosing. The one thing you can count on is that we're going to have patience,

He's a safe driver, he doesn't miss church much, he's friendly.

It's trying to walk that very fine line between being seen as an occupier, and being effective and winning this war and helping the Iraqis stand up on their feet and take the fight to the enemy.

That is not how the American military acts or should act, ... And it's really a shame that just a handful can besmirch maybe the reputations of hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and sailors, airmen and Marines who've been over there.

Vice President Dick Cheney told The Washington Post on Sunday that the war on terrorism that began October 7 may never end. At least, not in our lifetimes. ... may be correct.

We don't know for sure that he's there, but he's been there before, ... Late Edition.

We're basically on our plan and moving toward Baghdad, but there are still many unknowns out there,

If we were, for instance, to say, 'OK, Iraq is not worth the cost,' if we were to make that my judgment, that terrible mistake ... the next 911 in my view would be right around the corner,

We did have a tragic death last night, but that I don't think has anything to do with the situation. The situation continues to get better over here. We're thinking very seriously about moving into stability operations in most of the country.

Well, that's obviously a very big worry. ... We are probably, I think without question, the country that is most dependent on information technology. So we know we have those vulnerabilities.

the outcome and consequences of defeat are greater than World War II.

We're now in there on the ground and starting our investigation of exactly who's up there and what's up there, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Now the number two person, the person that is his al-Zarqawi's primary facilitator, the one that organizes things operationally, certainly in Baghdad, and has a lot of responsibility for the al Qaeda finances in Iraq, he's no longer on the scene, ... So, they're going to have to go the bench and find somebody that's probably less knowledgeable, less qualified.

This may be the future of skin care, ... but it is not the present of skin care.

We gave him our best military advice and I think that's what we're obligated to do. If we don't do that, we should be shot.

This preserves for the president all the options that a president would want to have in case this country or our friends and allies were attacked with weapons of mass destruction, be they nuclear, biological, chemical or, for that matter, high explosives,

We are hitting targets similar to those hit yesterday,

Obviously, any time you have detainees who will sacrifice their life to kill you or what you stand for, I mean, that's the most dangerous type of individual you can have in your control,

The information that I have is that it was ordered by the minister of Interior, that it was carried out by the Iraqi Police Service, that U.S. forces, or coalition forces, provided an outer cordon so they weren't involved in going into the facilities,

Obviously, individuals of that stature in the Taliban leadership are of great interest to the United States, and we would expect that they would be turned over, absolutely.

We are not doing any pre-planned operations today, as Friday is the Muslim holy day. But we do have forces available to hit any emerging targets.

Not only was there no delay, ... I think we anticipated in most cases not in all cases, but in most cases the support that was required. And we were pushing support before we were formally asked for it.

That I can't tell you, ... What I can tell you is the organization that he is associated with has provided intelligence to our intelligence unit there in Baghdad that has saved soldiers' lives.

The Marines are obeying the cease-fire, but they're being fired upon. They can return fire in self-defense, which they do, but they're trying their best to follow the rules of the cease-fire,

You would expect the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the whole Department of Defense community to be working on all sorts of contingencies for various situations, and you can be assured that's happening,

If we think about it for a minute, if we had not done what was done in World War II, then we'd a be living in a much different world today, ... I think can you take that and fast forward to today. We have a great threat out from there terrorism. If we don't handle this in the right way, I don't think we'll like the world we live in in five years.

He thought it was not at all tied to the article in the magazine.

There are a lot of ways to go before you get to the point where you ... decide you want to give active-duty forces law enforcement authority,

an important message, I think, for the regime and the people of Iraq to understand that this regime is gone.

We know there are going to be times that our forces have been shot at, U.S. and coalition forces have been shot at from time to time and we're going to take some casualties, unfortunately,

We certainly expect conflict in that part of Afghanistan,

And so, it does beg the question Do you need that kind of authority (for active-duty troops) And that's going to have to be part of the long discussion,

It's going to be all the instruments of our national power with our friends and allies. And the fact that it could last several years or many years or maybe our lifetimes would not surprise me, ... This Week.

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts,

It will have some effect, but over time they will replace people,

have actually done a pretty remarkable job considering the hand they were dealt.

CSD's first made headlines early in 2003 when the Pentagon announced they were developing drugs to help soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD). Feelings of guilt and regret travel neural pathways in a manner that mimics the tracings of ingrained fear, so a prophylactic against one could guard against the other, ... show strong promise for this.

I don't see issues with either of those that would tell me that North Korea is on a different footing today than they were, let's say, 30 days ago,

How can I ignore the expert opinion of General Myers, who is concerned with the safety of his troops

When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country ... You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.

With muscle, determination, marble, cement and Indiana limestone, you did more than repair our windows and walls, you repaired our souls,

our democratic idea of public accountability -- the airing of misdeeds by government officials and employees in order to hold government to the highest standards of conduct -- is an idea that is misunderstood in other parts of the world.

All the service chiefs were in total support of Gen. Tommy Franks' plan, the numbers we had planned, all of that. We were all on board,

I think the plan is ... is a brilliant plan and we've been at it now for less than a week, ... We're just about to Baghdad. Some of the biggest losses we have taken are due to Iraqi's committing serious violations of the law of arm conflict and the Geneva Conventions by dressing as civilians and luring us into surrender situations and opening fire on our troops. So this is a plan that is very well thought out and will play out as we expect.

About 25 percent of them can do independent operations or operations with little help from coalition forces, but every week that number changes and goes up.

The most important thing we have ... right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve.

They have a very good fiber-optic system, I'll just leave it at that,

This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,

We know this is the most intensive time of training for them. That's always the winter training cycle, where they conduct the majority of their training, their most intensive training.

Additional time in Iraq is going to cost us more money, ... We are working those estimates right now.