The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.