This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.