All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

I'm a redneck. And we can wear whatever because we just really don't care about those things. And when you're a redneck named Bubba, you really don't care.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.