I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

Loose lips sink ships.

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

I am not capitulating.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?