“And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.”
“I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‘the swamp.’ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.”
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”
“With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.”
“I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.”
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
“When someone is impatient and says, ‘I haven’t got all day,’ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”
“My dad is like a cactus – introverted and tough. I’m a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He’s my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.”
“People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.”
“As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.”