The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

I had an abnormal heart, the kind that stretched like a rubber-band and weakened with every tug I allowed someone to have

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.