I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

We have too many mosques in America.

The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.

Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.