There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.