The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

My aim in times to come is not to just work with Muslims but to actually sing songs for everyone and sing songs in which people all over the world can relate to.

I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!