When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.

I've spent 7 Christmases in Iraq and Afghanistan with WWE.

We've always gone to other countries where there's been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like any other company, a global company.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

I feel very strongly about our flag and our country.

I draw the line between me and my character.

Triple H and I have wrestled many, many times, but never on a real meaningful stage. I would really enjoy that.

If you have a problem, the NYPD is the greatest police force to the world.

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

I don't think people realize how good Fit Finlay was. He was the best heel and probably the best worker I'd ever seen.

I think, Randy Orton, he has obviously been around a long time, but I think Randy Orton can be a terrific heel.

I think The Miz can be a terrific heel. Miz enjoys being a heel, and I think he's actually very good at it. People look at him and want to hate him. That's what you want.

There is so much talent! Now, we may not have at the moment that transcendent next-level 'Stone Cold' or The Rock, but I assure you, they're there.

A lot of people want to talk about me and my hazing. Yes, I did. I make no apologies about it whatsoever.

Did I haze the Miz? Hell yes!

When I started, guys were hazed, and for good reason.

Most of my promos are straight out of Pat Buchanan's run for election.

The major thing of our government is to protect the people.

Colleges take kids' money. It's that simple.

Invest in good, solid companies in good sectors.

You look at right-to-work states: a lot of car companies are relocating down to the South so they don't have to deal with the unions or the legacy cost or any of those things, and that's what manufacturing's done.

Government needs to stay out of nearly everything.

Presidential scandals have traditionally and historically no effect on the market.

I wrestled all over the world, in carnivals and tents in Europe and in Japan over 50 times.

I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that.

I've always been a news junkie.

I started up this program here in Bermuda, working with what society deems under-privileged kids, at-risk kids.

Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.

I'm happy about the fact that I got to do what I wanted to do since I was a kid. The fact that I got to live the dream that I wanted to live.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

I enjoyed the Bradshaw character - the beer-drinking character from Texas. It was just fun.

I should be a poster child for CTE.

I've been to over 70 different countries, all seven continents. It's been just a wonderful ride, and all that is because of professional wrestling 100%.

I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.

I really enjoyed working with Michael Cole. I think he's a great play-by-play guy.

My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.

I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.