Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

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.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

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.

I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.