While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

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.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?