[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.