Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

A great man is one sentence.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.