War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed.

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Trend is not destiny.

If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Nobody is really qualified to be the president. Basically it's an acting job. You have to act like you're the president. And every four years the country holds a big casting call.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.