. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.