If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Rationality will not save us.

There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying "Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba."

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.