The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

I get such joy from singing- it's good for the soul.

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

It's so important to look relaxed.

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.