West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation.

Commies love concrete.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.