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 .

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

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.