Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.

Times don't change. Men do.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.