Howard Hughes — "I'm not interested in politics. I'm interested in power."

"I'm not a recluse. I'm just a private person."

"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 …"

"You know, the thing about flying is, it's not the flying that's dangerous. It's the landing."

"I don't like to be interrupted."

"Do you think if they asked a man if he was a Democrat or a Republican that he would refuse to answer on the grounds that his answer might incriminate him? The very fact that this man pleaded his const…"