Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.