"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."

"I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done."

"A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues."

"I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them."

"I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector."

"I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum."

"The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats."

"The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security."

"The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us."

"I think Barack Obama is a one-term President."

"I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved."

"And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it."

"I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically."

"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."

"Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles."

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."

"I was a freethinker before I knew how to think."

"What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability."

"It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls."

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses"

"You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living."

"Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap"

"A lot can change in the editing room."

"The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition."