I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

You have to be there at the right time and you've got to be equipped.