My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.