Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.