I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary Clinton.

I don't know who Donald Trump has in mind given that the circle of loyalists around him, the circle of people that he genuinely trusts is very small and getting smaller all the time.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of the consorting that he did around Washington.

[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.

[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt.

[Michael Flynn] has called President [Barack] Obama a liar.

In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.

You have your goals. They may be small goals or they may be large goals. As you strive to achieve your goals, sometimes your conditions change and your goals will change as well.

Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.

Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Dad’s especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can’t be erased.