The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people

I think civilian Americans support the military very much.

Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

I love hitting into the rough because it gets me close to the people.

Familiarity breeds consent.

I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.