“The guy over there at Pease-a woman, actually-she said something about a country-Western song, you know, about the train, a light at the end of the tunnel, I only hope it’s not a train coming the other way. Well, I said to her, well, I’m a country-music fan. I love it, always have. Doesn’t fit the mold of some of the columnists, I might add, but nevertheless– of what they think I ought to fit in, but I love it … But nevertheless, I said to them you know there’s another one the Nitty Ditty Nitty City-that they did. And it says if you want to see a rainbow you’ve got to stand a little rain. We’ve had a little rain. New Hampshire has had too much rain. A lot of families are hurting.”
“Somebody said … we prayed for you over there. That was not just because I threw up on the prime minister of Japan either. Where was he when I needed him? But I said, Let me tell you something. And I say this-I don’t know whether any ministers from the Episcopal Church are here. I hope so. But I said to him this. You’re on to something here. You cannot be president of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff? You can’t be. And we are blessed.”
“Everybody’s talking about where’s Barbara, we miss her very, very much. And I told her I didn’t need her here, I was not going to throw up. How many people here have had the flu? … I’d like a loan because it cost a lot to dry-clean a suit over there in Japan and the prime minister had a nice expensive one.”
“So don’t feel sorry for-don’t cry for me, Argentina. We’ve got problems … and I am blessed by good health. "
“I am sick and tired … of these carping little liberal Democrats jumping all over my you-know-what.”
“If a frog had wings, he wouldn’t hit his tail on the ground. ‘If.’ Too hypothetical.”
