History is not just cruel. It is witty.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

I'm proud of everything I've done.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Yellow is capable of charming God.