- Sander Vanocur: Here we are, four years after the first oil embargo, and this country still doesn't have an energy policy - and it's disgraceful.
- Johnny Carson: Do you think they're gonna have one?
- Sander Vanocur: No.
- Johnny Carson: They can't go on forever; they're gonna be - they're in deep trouble now, and they're gonna...
- Sander Vanocur: That's the one thing that Washington is great at: Making things go on forever.
- Johnny Carson: [on sometimes finding the eight consecutive nights of "Roots" upsetting] I tried to get away from it once. I turned over to watch The Jeffersons and, uh... they were watching Roots.
- Floyd R. Turbo: What right does Puerto Rico have to be a state? If anything, we should make Manhattan a state, too. It is an island, too, and has twice as many Puerto Ricans.
- Johnny Carson: Wouldn't you like to know that you descended from some prophet, uh, Biblical times, or some great philosopher or teacher, or early Egyptian comic - or early Jewish comic?
- Buddy Hackett: I like the part about the Egyptian comic.
- Johnny Carson: Oh, right - that's...
- Buddy Hackett: I want to see the laughs they get when the plague was on all the houses.