The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

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.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

The President's very shrewd

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

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

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.