I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

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.

I refuse to be put in a cage that gleams golden for many, but bronze for me. I would much rather be a dove in the sky, flying out into the open, into the sky, into the beyond.

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

He nodded and leaned down to kiss me. I let him, Dad be damned.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Americans do not like long wars with indecisive outcomes.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.