I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

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.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo.

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

I have to say Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.