Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.

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.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

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

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.