I truly believe that America's greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn't treat us fairly.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

As sunlight is for flowers, so is love for life.

Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique to them.

Will power defeats all powers

It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.