I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

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.

Root yourself in this earthand it will root itself in you.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

I want you to be my last kiss of the year and the first of next

This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

I kind of just roll up on stage. I realize that as soon as I find myself wearing something that I haven't worn ten times in the past, I'm like, "Who am I right now? I don't recognize myself!"

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.