I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s and the early '50s that were revisionists. They were attacking the whole basis of the history of the Cold War. People like D.F. Fleming, William Appleman Williams.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.