“I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in L. A. My answer has been direct and simple. Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. Yes, I can understand how people were shocked and outraged by the verdict in the Rodney King trial. But there is simply no excuse for the mayhem that followed.”

“Men have been killing each other for centuries without need to blame skulls or relics.”

“When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.”

“Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this trial is that it lacks the two men who are to blame for anything which is criminal, namely Hitler and Himmler.”

“Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.”

“I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.”

“If a good woman is killed, a man is to blame.”

“I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.”

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

“When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the "blame America first crowd" didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first.... The American people know better.”