Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

This is a tough game. There are times when you’ve got to play hurt, when you’ve got to block out the pain.

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that’s very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.

It doesn’t take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn’t take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

There is no logical reason why girls shouldn’t play baseball. It’s not all that tough.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that’s what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

I’m not tough. I’m tenacious.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It’s always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we’ve got a great diversity of interests.

I’m not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

Even when things are stable, that’s not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn’t been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

I served as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Let me tell you, it’s tough to find out what the CIA is doing. They led us astray on the weapons of mass destruction that they said Saddam Hussein found. We sent out Collin Powell, Secretary of State, former National Security Counselor, chief of staff, four star general, couldn’t find it out. I’d be reluctant to cut into term limits. I think if the voters would become informed and aroused, they could impose the proper limits on the guys who ought to be out.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public’s eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest – tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

I think it’s a tough road if you’re a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don’t. It’s the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

I always knew mum loved me – tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn’t always be there.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.