Eric Shinseki Quotes

• If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

  Eric Shinseki

  Inspirational, Change, Irrelevance

  "No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission". Article by James Dao, Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2009.

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• You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

  Eric Shinseki

  Commitment, Leader, Arrogance

  "Forever Young: Ten Gifts of Faith for the Graduate". Book by Pat Williams (p.156), 2005.

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

  Eric Shinseki

  Irrelevance, Ifs, Dislike

  "Marines Turned Soldiers". National Review Online, December 10, 2001.

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

  Eric Shinseki

  Leadership, Arrogance, Vacuums

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

  Eric Shinseki

  Iraq, Soldier, Dying

  "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.

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• 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.

  Eric Shinseki

  Leadership, Integrity, Health

  "Shinseki resigns, but will that improve things at VA hospitals?" by Tom Cohen, Drew Griffin, Scott Bronstein, Nelli Black, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2014.

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• More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

  Eric Shinseki

  Veteran, Being The Best, Employee

  "Eric Shinseki, VA Chief, Charts Solid Gains For Veterans". Interview with David Wood, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2012.

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• 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.

  Eric Shinseki

  Military, Men, America

  "Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States". Book by Bill Yenne, 2007.

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• 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.

  Eric Shinseki

  Order, Soldier, Would Be

  "Vets Affairs Pick Known For Contradicting Rumsfeld". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 13, 2009.

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• 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

  Team, Army, Fields

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