Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them.

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.