Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

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

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.