There Are Long Periods When Life Seems

I Have Been Aware All The Time That My Peoples, Spread Far And Wide Throughout Every Continent And Ocean In The World, Were United To Support Me In The Task To Which I Have Now Been Dedicated With Such Solemnity.

It Has Turned Out To Be An Annus Horribilis.

Experience Shows That Great Enterprises Seldom End With A Tidy And Satisfactory Flourish. Together, We Are Doing Our Best To Re-establish Peace And Civil Order In The Gulf Region, And To Help Those Members Of Civil And Ethnic Minorities Who Continue To Suffer Through No Fault Of Their Own. If We Succeed, Our Military Success Will Have Achieved Its True Objective.

We Lost The American Colonies Because We Lacked The Statesmanship To Know The Right Time And The Manner Of Yielding What Is Impossible To Keep.

[on The 1982 Intruder Into Her Bedroom:] I Realized Immediately That It Wasn't A Servant Because They Don't Slam Doors.