We are facing some kind of phantom, a certain person or party, who are professionals and who have hatched a terrorist plot and are carrying it out. As long as we have not apprehended any person, the plot will continue.

The one remaining option was an order to shoot, but I was not prepared to order the troops to shoot Lebanese citizens.

Saddam [Hussein] was a dictator, it was one-party rule, but now we have 60 parties running the country.

We're going to see a kind of old Democratic Party, new Democratic Party kind of split on this. I think in the end that individual control of part of the retirement Social Security funds has got to happen,

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling!

I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. It left me.