There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.

It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.

The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

You'll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.