Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

I played golf... I did not get a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. That's way more satisfying.

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).