The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

There's no such thing as the United Nations.

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

Ye have not because ye ask not.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Sounds to me like he's on the toilet.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed - with energy and engagement - and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.