This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.