If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.