The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

We’re pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when it’s our turn. If we don’t, our decisions are made for us.

When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic.

The purpose of life is to live it.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

A good runner leaves no footprints.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

Safety from what? Who's after me?" Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.