[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Promise me you will appreciate every moment because we are the lucky ones

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.