In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

When I go to the beach, my grandchildren try to make words out of the veins in my legs. That's why I still take the pill; I don't want any more grandchildren.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.