And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.