I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Three dimensional time converts scalar waves into transverse waves.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

You are not doing this for her. You're doing it for yourself. Your life is not just about the people you love. It's also about the people you hate.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

I am just what I am, I'm just what you see. So I'll make it easy, I'll stay me.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.