I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.

If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.