An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.