"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."

"The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny."

"I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach."

"I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics."

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

"The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage."