Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

There's no such thing as the United Nations.

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Educate every child for a good courage.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year.

Love is talkative passion.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.