Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

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.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Fighting with tangles, fighting with curls, the poor barber yanked, the poor barber pulled, until with one last effort(and to the wonder of us all)a GINORMOUS Polar Bearlanded on the floor.

Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!

Every man shall bear his own burden.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Rather we let down the world than the world let us down!

The garden that is finished is dead.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.