I didn't accept it. I received it.
Richard Allen  , National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan.

I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
Anonymous  Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) 

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan  , Former U.S. President

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965) 

I had rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay 

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
Alan Paton 

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
Ronald Reagan  , Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
Harry S. Truman 

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
G. K. Chesterton