As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.