In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

I wanted to know the denouement of your life story. I have no interest in the narrative.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

I have the same birthday as George Washington. No I don't. I don't even know who George Washington is.

Perfection can be a fetish

I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.