My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

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

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.