Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway.

If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

I love scars on people. Scars to me are so attractive.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.