Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.

I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

Sometimes you need a B-2 bomber and sometimes you need your mother.