The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

I don't want the attention. I want the respect.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.