You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
My family believed I could do no wrong. That's probably why I have utter confidence in myself even when I shouldn't have.
Shoot first and ask questions later, and don't worry, no matter what happens, I will protect you.
I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
I'm sick of voting blank checks.
Reacting to the appropriations for the Works Progress Administration, a writer quoted the late Speaker:
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!