What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where I post things almost daily.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering