I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

Run the race of life with your sacred strength.

I let loose a guttural roar-the cry of a man who has been deprived of his rightful kibbeh. I drew my sword and smacked the eagle with flat of the blade

I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

We need a leader who won't be silent - as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been - as millions of Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

That tag - underwear model - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292