"Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering."

"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."

"History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right."

"Every loss of life is terrible."

"I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat."

"Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace."

"I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player."

"The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off."

"I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality."

"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."

"I've always felt that life should be an adventure, that every day should be important ... There can be no doubt that the last three years have certainly been an adventure for me and for all of you. Though it was stressful -- very stressful -- I can say that I don't regret everything."

"(The contestants are) going to get real business lessons, real business advice and, day in and day out, tasks that are difficult and challenging and they're going to be aware of what it takes to be an apprentice at Martha Stewart Living."

"I am taking this action today because it is in the best interests of MSO and because I think it's the right thing to do,"

"[The bummer of it all is that Dowd is right about the female need to use aggression only as a stealth weapon. The hazard of hitting the big five-oh and beyond is an erroneous sense that you've earned the right not to play by the same rules. Once the hormonal brakes come off, it's easy to crash.] I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, ... I fell in a hole."

"We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and [launched] the Martha Stewart Kids magazine, ... These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders."

"[No doubt, she will continue to drive her comeback the only way she knows how: full speed ahead. She even holds out the possibility that she could return to the chairman post of her company someday.] I have learned, ... that I really cannot be destroyed."

"[Speaking of her stint this summer taping] The Apprentice, ... I had a great experience."

"It could be a lifestyle suite devoted to exercise or to love...but you have to have a vision."

"It's a how-to show with entertainment and a live audience, ... It's not a talk show ? I don't see a couch anywhere."

"I have been so much looking forward to starting anew this September, ... I have a great enthusiasm for living, a great enthusiasm for the kinds of things that living brings us. All those things we've been writing about and talking about and doing - this is my life and this is a really great way to spend time."

"I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it."

"I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating."

"We are not the sum of our possessions."

"Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work."

"I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism."

"I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around."

"For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now."

"Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe."

"I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard."

"We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right."

"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war."

"Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here."

"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world."

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."

"Old guys can still do fun things."

"I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most."

"One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans."

"Our God is a forgiving God."

"It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself."

"I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."

"The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor."

"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."

"I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."

"I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man."

"Read my lips: no new taxes."

"We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America."

"We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky."

"A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree."

"Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that."

"I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that."