Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.