Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

smiling a smile full of things restrained

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

I want to live in a world where people care about others, and try not to hurt others with words or actions.

When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.