- [on the introduction of a secret recording facility in the Oval Office by President Nixon]. It never occurred to me that anyone in his right mind would install anything so Orwellian as a system that never turned off, that preserved every word, every curse, every tantrum, every flight of presidential paranoia, every bit of flattery and bad advice and tattling by his advisers.
- [to reporters, following the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt on president Reagan] I am in control here.
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