I am not a rabid partisan.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

One must always keep one's government under control.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

I am not a rabid partisan.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans.

I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

These are people - I'm for immigration - legal immigration. I've been an immigration attorney. But people who have come to our country and violated laws, we should not be providing full health care services.

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens.

We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens. These are people - I'm for immigration - legal immigration. I've been an immigration attorney. But people who have come to our country and violated laws, we should not be providing full health care services.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets.

A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

My musical career was an accident.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.