I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

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

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

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

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.

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.