Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.