There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

I wish to stay drenchedforeverin those rain-blue eyesin those...soul-reaching crystalsnot moving a musclenor breathingjustsavoringthis turquoise acheagainst my heart.

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

Always stay strong to your dream because when you lose sight of it then that is when your dream dies!

You can understand my inner reactionsmore clearly than me because you can see me as a whole.

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

Look into the heart of each child. That child might be suffering and eventually they'll be an adult, but help them get to that next plane because they have something to offer.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.