Leaders should be competent, professional, and have the absolute intestinal fortitude to use the last ounce in you to minimize the risk to the men and women in your command.

From an address to the Corps of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point in November 1997, when Bucha returned to his alma mater to donate his Medal of Honor. As quoted by Larry Smith in Beyond Glory (2003), p. 214-215