We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster - Fred Thompson

They say that God protects drunks and children. I would add young morons to that list.

I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

As I reflected further, I convinced myself that Nixon had not had prior knowledge to the break-in, nor of the cover-up that followed. Even if culpability reached dangerously close to the president, I reasoned, surely his top aides would have shielded him from damaging information, not just to protect themselves, but also to allow him to tell the nation, in the best faith, that neither he nor his chief advisors were involved. (page 39)