I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I never got a job from a poor person.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.