I don't give a damn about the civilians.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.