I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.