We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

When I get in deep water, I prefer to announce that I'm in over my head.

Nothing about economic growth in the United States over the course of the past 40, 50 years, during which time this has been continually happening, would indicate that we are being harmed in an overall sense by this.