The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

The first boy was always the hardest.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.