We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

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.

Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

Feeling - what authentic human fun!

We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.