"I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping."

"Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor."

"My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me."

"We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets."

"When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news."

"It is a profound truth that do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon."

"GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future."