A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

Wishing gets you nothing.

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.