I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.