I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.

I was small but slow as a college tackle.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.