Our healthcare is a horror show.
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress andor in the public.
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there.
The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat. , Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra. ]