"Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism."

"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth ... or anywhere else."

"The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents."

"How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!"

"The only thing worse than losing a battle is winning one"

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."

"All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

"I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute."

"My tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

"Although the last, not least."

"We cannot view the world through another being's eyes. Love is knowing, without a doubt, another's perception of the world and being content with having no evidence."