Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.

You know, the answer to your problem is just an attitude change away.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.