R. W. Clark Quotes

The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying.

Embryonic cells, by their very definition, are not from your body. Right now, inside your body, you have everything necessary to build what you need now.

Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.

Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.

With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.

What we project, we get back.

Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.

Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

Is it really so important to be different?

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

Already the scent of victory is in the air.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this.

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

One may be "outside" the church, but one can never be "outside" of God's love.

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

I didn't want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.

Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.