Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.