Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.

When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don't like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences so it's something you shouldn't launch into, on the expectation that this is going to rally the nation. This is not like 'Friday Night Lights'.

Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

Already the scent of victory is in the air.

I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.