The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.

I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.