Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.