There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

I always love to come to Austin.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

What is your major malfunction?

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.