In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.