Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.