Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.