I think most Americans understand that radical Islam can't be compromised with or appeased. And the only way we can be safe is to form partnerships over there that will protect us over here.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

It's safer for you to stay with the others, ' he said.Safer? He didn't realize.I was already dead.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

I've directed five films and I've proven that people have made money with my films - many people have made money with my films.

I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.