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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!

Because I want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me.