The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.