France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

I love life too much to be bitter.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.

I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real.