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.

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.

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.

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn't just happen once. It's forever moving in you and in your life.

Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.