The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

Share your dreams and they will be inspired. Plant seeds of knowledge and they will grow and reproduce beyond measure.

Light refused increases darkness.

Most people think they KNOW the answer. I am willing to ADMIT I don't even know the question.

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

I would want to be fully informed before advising the president.

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.