Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element.

Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter

Stop...Stop what you're doing...Stop what you're doing and breathe.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.

I didn't do it,' he insisted. 'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked. 'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

I'd love to go on a safari - [I've] never been on a safari.