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

In order to do something you must be something.

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.

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.