My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

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.

Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library

Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.