The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

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.

One of the biggest problem is to notice everything, Secrets and lies kill relationships.

OMG I just saw Warrick Voclain on 5th Ave! #DragonSighting #DragonInMyPants #Dragons #RuinedForAllOtherMen.

Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like

I'm just not sure that I'm good enough for her. She's a top shelf drink, I'm a house poured shot.

My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part