It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Books open the doors that others have closed on you.

Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any sense to talk [Peter] Makhno to an American.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.