We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.