I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

Anything I want comes into place.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.