We should declare war on North Vietnam - we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap

Today we Americans lost a hero who always seemed larger than life. ... Bear Bryant gave his country the gift of a life unsurpassed. In making the impossible seem easy, he lived what we strive to be.