I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.