I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

if you speak things into existence, they will become real.. believe me!

A smile is an antidote for stress.

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.