If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

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

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

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

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.