I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership -… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
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. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
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. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, stand in… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual. — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
