[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by 'new at it, ' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you’re just starting to get traction.

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.