My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

Our current tax system is broken.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

War means blind obedience unthinking stupidity brutish callousness wanton destruction and irresponsible murder.

Thats what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that fine. But the time is essential and non negotiable.

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.

Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.

I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

I've always felt very English.

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

The impulse to connect the dots and to share what youve connected is the urge that makes you an artist.

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

I've never considered myself as a legend - just a simple man with heart.

I've not had a deliberate image makeover.

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.