I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct.

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.

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

So you treat your love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while. Catch it in a mason jar, with holes in the top, and run like hell to show it off.

I was very popular in high school.

I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.