When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.