There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

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.

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.

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.