The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.

I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.

The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.

Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.

I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful.

When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.

I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when Suha Arafat was launching anti-Semitic tirades against Israel and the Jews.

Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!

There can never be equality, so long the heavens have decided together with the darkness in the heart of men, such idealistic desire will never come to fruition.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.

I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

Somebody bring me some water/can’t you see I’m burning alive.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.