We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.