You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

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.

For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

You set goals in order to become the person it takes to achieve them

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.