Joe Quotes

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together, ' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.

I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.

It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

I was not a name I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century.

Political courage requires clarity.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.

Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

I only wear two rings: a wedding ring and my World Series ring.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?