The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.