Robert Novak

“It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.”

“The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.”

“If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.”

“I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.”

“I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.”

“CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.”

“Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?”

“Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.”

“He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.”