Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

Remove the letter 'I'(EGO) and word 'WANT'(DESIRE) from the statement "I WANT HAPPINESS" and you will be remained with 'HAPPINESS

Put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry!

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.