Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.