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

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

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.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

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.

Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.

We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.

What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.