Global warming is not a threat. It's not a real threat. It's not a credible threat. It's not an imminent threat. ISIS is.

And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.

It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it.

[If] You don't like the rule, change the rule; but play by the rules.

When people don't comply, things - bad things will happen afterwards.

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

Hillary Clinton wouldn't have make a joke about wiping the server clean with a towel or now we find out about bashing old Blackberries to get rid of them or the fact that she had 13 Blackberries.

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.