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.

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.

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.

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.

If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

Okayyyyy,” Isabelle said in a low voice, “When did Brother Zachariah get hot?

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.