I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and once we committed we should see it through.

We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

Some of my best friends are FBI agents.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.

Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

Losing your job gives you the material from which life is made

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Expectations are an evil thing.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.