I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

I am a part of all I have read.

The "question" is thee transformable power.

Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.

I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.