You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors.

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.

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.

Black is not a color.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.