Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

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.

You need to keep you mind at peace and be sure what you do is your passion.

Without desire, one is a walking cadaver.

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

I'm not going to go into operational matters, obviously.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.