“Civilians’ is a term I love. It’s what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren’t on TV.”

This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.

What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there.

I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!

And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I’d gone to Africa I would have got poached.

All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a ‘magic bullet’ which on its own can solve our problems.

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.

You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.