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

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.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

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.

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 cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.

Dating is no charge prostitution.

There's nothing unmanly about surrender. It takes a brave man to give in.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.