The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Compassion, not castigation is the way to help a person become better.

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.