The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.