Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.