When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

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.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

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

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

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

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.

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers.

I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems.

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.