I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

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.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

It is only when your actionsand words are aligned that youcan achieve your true potential.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Socialism is a monster which will die.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!

A short absence is the safest.