How much damage will have been done before we act?

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

Your religion is where your love is.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

I guess I do a really good job at covering.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me'. Being popular is poison.