I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

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.

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

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.

No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.