I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

It's not your perfection that makes you an angel

You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Winning is about believing you're never out of a game. I've always believed that.