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

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.