What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

The highest distinction is service to others.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

Life, to me, is like fishing: you won’t catch anything until you start, and every year you get older is another year the fish might slip through the net.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

Viacoms results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.