I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

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 animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Emit gratitude as though it was done

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.