Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

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.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Perfection is impossible.Expecting the best from yourselfisn’t about trying to be perfect

To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

I want to inspire people with my work, whether I'll be dancing, acting, on the big screen, or in the production room.