Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.