I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

For the love of God, will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.