I think there needs to be a much more significant filter on those Donald Trump tweets. It's OK to have some unspoken and untweeted thoughts.

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

There's no doubt that cable news hosts can say things that the president of the United States shouldn't say, and people can be harsh at you. That doesn't mean you benefit by being harsh back.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.