We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

I have seen what hard work can do, and I know what more it can and will do.

When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.