You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

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.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.