Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.