I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the Cuban missile crisis]. And I'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. In other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.