So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

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.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.

The waves of time wash us all clean.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.