"Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded."

"Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth."

"You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC."

"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday."

"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."

"Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way."

"They advertise on the radio for food stamps!"

"I don't really shout that much."

"I'm pretty busy."

"I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No."

"Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch."

"Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs."

"Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes."

"Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy."

"The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless."

"Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email."

"The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything."

"Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society."

"My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly."

"Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that."

"The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms."

"Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes."

"Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion."

"The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net."