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I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.