I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.