I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.

Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.