My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.