There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.

[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen.