I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

Emotional intelligence is making a huge mistake, but learning from it, forgiving yourself, and setting new and higher related-standards below which you will never operate.

If you insist on standing in such a state of undress, it is your shadow that will have to get out of my way.

Humility fears not humiliation.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.