We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

Don’t carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It’s too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right? pg 264

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

Love is a jeering mime.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.