I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

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.

Make sure you speak out and loud enough to be heard.

Invest your time and buy greatness with it.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

A Guardian lover is the last thing you need, Wynn Myfanwy, she told herself sternly. Too bad it was the very first thing she wanted.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators