I never liked anyone who didn’t have a temper. If you don’t have a temper, you don’t have any passion.
We have an energy policy – we’re transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don’t have the same values as us. In some cases, they’re using our money to finance terrorism against us.
If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.
If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.
I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
Nobody wants a job where they don’t have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they’re going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.
I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.
You’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
If you can’t prove it’s not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.
In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don’t devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.
The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America’s government, which means, in essence, the president.
If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.
Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.