In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

Destiny is manifested only through action.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you

There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."