With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

It wasn’t worth it, but at the time it was. And that’s all that mattered.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.