Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves

A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours.

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.