A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

Pat OBrien knows nothing. Hes on the Hell express.

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.