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.

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.

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 future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

When true love broke my heart in half, I took the whiskey from the shelf, And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself.

My work ethic is from sports.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.