The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.
I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.
Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.
Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
