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.

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

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.

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

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

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

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