What guests have said

He does not characterize. It is like being engraved by a man who has decided to get the number of soldiers right.

Paul Revere

He asked me whether it was worth it. Nobody had. I had an answer. I did not know that until he asked.

Nathan Hale

I did not enjoy a single minute of it. I would come back tomorrow.

John Adams

He never once told me what he thought. I have been married fifty-four years to a man who never once did not.

Abigail Adams

He asked what the amendment permits. He did not ask what I wished. I have been interviewed by the British Foreign Office and they at least pretended to care.

James Madison

He telephones me every week and asks one question. I have never been asked so little by a man who wanted so much.

Benjamin Franklin

He asks the same last question of everyone and will not take a second sentence. It is the nearest thing to a court I have sat in since I left one.

John Jay

I asked him why he would not characterize. He asked me the next question.

James Otis

He asked for one sentence. I gave him four. He counted.

Jonathan Trumbull

He read me Arthur Lee's charges in Lee's own words and then asked me nothing. I had waited fifty years to be asked nothing.

Silas Deane