Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

We can support our troops without supporting our president.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

I'm like a woman scorned. I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people.

Many people want to live in an alternate world. As a writer, it’s my job to put them there.

What a fool honesty is.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.

Busy idleness urges us on.

Before you can get what you want, you have to know what you want,and make a game plan to get it

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.