You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

There are no facts, only interpretations.