I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

We can support our troops without supporting our president.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

I'm like a woman scorned. I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people.

Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".

So what's the secret to staying together?" I asked her. "Be nice?" she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a secret to losing weight is to eat less. Be nice. Don't leave. That's all.

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

With you, what you see is what you get. And I see cheap.

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.