I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.

Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.