The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The world needs a strong America.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.