"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." James Madison
"I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War."
  • Mike Mansfield
    (03/16/1903 – 10/05/2001)
    US senator (MT), on his greatest disappointment in 34 years as Senate majority leader
Mike Mansfield
"I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder." Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon
"A mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady."
Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge
"People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius." Joseph Levitch
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare." Daniel Moynihan
"'Hello,' he lied."
"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for."
"A guy called me smarmy one time. I had to call him up and ask him what it meant."
"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity." Isabelle Huppert