Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

I think you got to keep in mind that Obama was raised among Muslims, and I think he really does not want to use the word war on terror because he was raised in that community.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.