There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

My government career is over.

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

I just know that what happened in the Clinton White House should never have happened to anyone.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

People should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning.

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.