I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.