"I have good kids, I love my kids. I try to bring them up the right way, not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them. I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done!"

“Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.”

Source : John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.43, Madison & Adams

“Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.”

“The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.”

“Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich.”

“Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.”

“I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.”

“I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.”

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”