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

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

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

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.