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

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.

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

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.

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.