The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

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.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Charity followed the pirate. To salvation or to hell, she would soon find out.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.

You're still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]