You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Handwriting enables civilization.

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.