Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.

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.

Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.

Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

Bewitched is half of everything.

Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

In the marathon anything can happen.

Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.