As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

I could watch her dance for hours, Because she's always dancing inside of my heart.

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

I am a movement chauvinist.

People are beautiful wrecks.

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

We have to name a problem to solve a problem.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.