If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.
The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed.
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
