Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants

I write humor as it's pretty much the only thing keeping me out of an asylum.

And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.

The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.