I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.