Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

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

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

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.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

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