Eric Shinseki Quotes

Eric Ken Shinseki is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs . His final United States Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army . Shinseki is a veteran of two tours of combat in the Vietnam War, in which he was awarded three Bronze Star Medals for valor and two Purple Hearts. He was the first Asian-American four-star general, and the first Asian-American Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. November 1942
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Famous Eric Shinseki Quotes

“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.”

Quoted in "Forever Young: Ten Gifts of Faith for the Graduate" - Page 156 - by Pat Williams, Karen Kingsbury - Religion - 2005

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

Quoted in Mackubin Thomas Owens, "Marines Turned Soldiers", National Review Online, December 10, 2001

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

General Eric K. Shinseki to associates; quoted in [Thom, Shanker, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12shinseki.html?_r=5&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login, New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki, The New York Times, January 12, 2007, 2007-01-13]

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