You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

I feel like I got a good jump on the ball. I turned my head and picked a spot out to run to. I was able to look back at the ball real quick again and it fell right into my glove.