“The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.”

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness.

I have done many impious things–no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.