The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government.