I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoover

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
Henry Kissinger

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
Ronald Reagan, famous movie star

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman

The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.
Knight Ridder News Service dispatch

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
Congressman Joe Early (D-Mass) at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal.

It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
John Hogan, Commonwealth Edison Supervisor of News Information, responding to a charge by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant operators were sleeping on the job.