Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen

Whoever dare dream, must do much activity to realize the dream.

'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

I'm not someone who plays a part for the press junket.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.