We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

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.

Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

Don't ask for anyone's permission to follow your dreams

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Save me from the ones that haunt me in the night.

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.