There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

Who are you and what are you?... I need to know.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.

I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.

If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

You know me... If you are Iraqi, you know me.

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.

Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can't just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.

I am optimistic.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

The worst kind of lying Ive ever done is keeping things from people.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly.

Lying the telling of beautiful untrue things is the proper aim of Art.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

The dress hat took a nosedive after the dashing JFK showed up at his inauguration bareheaded. Suddenly, a chapeau was no longer de rigueur for any man leaving the house.

Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

If you do something for the first time you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it you write about it.