The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic".

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Life is a game; so we should know very well how to play it.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.