“Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.”

“World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”

“We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.”