I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.