In politics you learn to always smile.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever.

I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell.

My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

That's my main thing: I want to be on the level those guys [Derrick Rose,Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant] are on.

You dream what you're supposed to do

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.

Love hath made thee a tame snake