We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.

Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.