Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

I believe time wounds all heels.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.