I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.

Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Love thy neighbor -- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

It doesn't matter what it looked like. What matters is the truth." (Mr. Peabody to Tommy)

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.