People will judge you according to your own convictions.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

The increase of this efficiency is essentially the problem of the manager, and the amount to which it can be increased by proper study is, in most cases, so great as to be almost incredible.

Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.

People think I'm a Simpsons character.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!