I've always wondered how in the hell we conservatives became denoted by red. That's a commie color! It is! The liberals have always been red!

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

Find a voice in a whisper.

The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.