If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.