There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

I like being a leader in real life.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

I've seen this episode. This is the one where Sylvester eats Tweety.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.