It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

I don't really want to do topless stuff anymore.

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.