"I don't think it will help anything in Sri Lanka if the balls were, you know, peeled back in terms of the inauguration." --Former President Bush, asked if his son's inauguration would be downsized in the wake of the tsunami
"I think Rumsfeld may be not too long for this world. . . . Let's dump him." --President Richard Nixon, April 7, 1971, talking about his young White House aide whom he said was too critical of the Vietnam War
"'His Hair is No Longer Gray.' ... Good one, huh?" --President Bush to People magazine, on what he hopes the headline will be a year from now