"I'm not a ladies' man. I just like to be around beautiful women."

"Just remember, there's no one I can't buy or destroy."

"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are."

"I would expect you really to wrap that government up down there to a point where it would be – well – a captive entity in every way."

"I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it …"