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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.