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.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

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

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.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

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!