If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

To err is human to forgive divine.

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, “I am literally the luckiest person in the world.