In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

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.

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

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

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

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

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.