Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Why do you write meaningless philosophy?” you asked. “Because it gives meaning to life, ” I whispered with deep empathy.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

I try to run every time I'm in a new city or country - you just put your shoes on and go. It's very therapeutic, and it also works for me when I want to lose weight.

I always had good students.

People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’