The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

Yesterday love was such an easy game for you to play. But now let's face it, things are so much easier today. Let it be like yesterday.