Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

I always love to come to Austin.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

What is your major malfunction?

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."