It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.

If you don't know when you're good, how can you know when you're bad?

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!

Today is a king in disguise.

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.