Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

One of the great constants in life is change.

The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

Dealing with one who feels smarter than you, let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before.

New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.