Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!

Get outta my dreams Get into my car.

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.

We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Skills are freedom. Get skilled up!

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.