When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.
Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.
I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.
I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, in a letter to her father William Patterson
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.
