If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

And politically he has to stand the consequences with his constituents in California, who he is going to talk to in the next few days. But to rush to judgment now and say we know this or that or the other, we don't know a lot of these facts. A lot of it has been rumor and innuendo.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.