There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.