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.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.

The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.

I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.