Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Killing is the payoff of war.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30 odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

I don't go out a lot, as I like to stay in. I often go for dinners with my girlfriend, and I love to see movies at the cinema, but I don't understand them.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah charm charisma that kind of thing you cant buy it.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

Be confident in yourself in your abilities and in your goals. Then go for it.

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.

I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.