A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

The problem with a lot people is, they are more concerned about their image than they are about their reputation. It should be the other way around.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.