A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

Respect for ourselves guides our morals

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

People tend to romanticize what they can't quite remember.

After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.