The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

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.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

It would be good karma.

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is.