Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.