Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

Never mistake motion for progress.

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.