The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.
I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.
Richard: Take this knife Mark: No Richard: You take this knife before I do something terrible with it
I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
Clarissa Vaughn: All right Richard, do me one simple favor. Come. Come sit. Richard Brown: I don't think I can make it to the party, Clarissa. Clarissa Vaughn: You don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to...
[Barbara is upstairs, watching Sheba and Richard having a blazing row about her affair with Steven Connolly] Barbara Covett: [voiceover] By the time I took my seat in the Gods, the opera was well into its final act. Richard Hart: You're his teacher! ...
Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man--in the end--a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target.
Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious and high-strung - a maintenance project of the first order.
Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.' Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains)...
He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
