I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.