Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.