Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Aargh! I’m too short for this shit!

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Art changes people people change the world.

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

Every actor needs someone to take a chance on them.