Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

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.

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

infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Of all the stories I have read about heroes, and all that I could ever read, of one thing I'm certain-he is mine.

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.