There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

The President's very shrewd

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.