Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

You don't need papers to vote.

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.