I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

Since I travel so much it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences because it's not profitable and now Newt as the highest-paid historian in American history may be an encouragement to people to study history.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history positive change was done by optimists.