A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

It's got to be done and done quickly, so let's get it done.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Offense is the essence of air power.

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

We make our purpose.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.

It's attractive when girls have faith. That is a big thing for me.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.