We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

Do you have any idea how rare love is? In a thousand years, I have found it but twice, and when I have, I have honored it.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.