The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Living the life you want is your ultimate responsibility

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.

Cars are changing and so is the way we communicate about them.

Each atom in Nature is the body of a virginal sparkle that incessantly evolves through time and space.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.