We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.