I am not very introspective.

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am not very introspective.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

Whole generations have forgotten history.

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life.

Doing the Right Thing Sometimes doing the right thing is to do nothing at all.

The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.