A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.

It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.

On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

It wasn't fair to pull her into that vortex, because I couldn't be fixed. And Roxy was a fixer. She thought she could help me, I could see it in her eyes.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.