[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.
I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter. ' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure. ' But that's the truth.
You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.