No one ever delighted a customer by being 'good enough'.
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.
This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.
The White House is a strange place.
I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.
When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.
Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.