This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.