My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

We're not copying life, we're making a comment on it.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

Another top issue for the upcoming [Donald] Trump administration is tax policy.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.